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This paper examines the real effects of a recent phenomenon commonly referred to as “activist short-selling,” where short-sellers publicly talk down stocks to benefit their short positions. First, we show that after firms are targeted by activist short-sellers, their investing, financing,...
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return volatility. Further, our results do not support the argument that a larger investor response to Street earnings might …
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This paper studies how investors infer CEO commitment to honesty from earnings management and how these perceptions – in conjunction with investors’ own social and moral preferences – shape their investment choices. We conduct two laboratory experiments simulating investment choices. Our...
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This article provides a comprehensive assessment of private firms' financing sources and their relation with financial reporting practices. We consider debt financing (bank financing, leasing, and government guarantees), equity financing (family ownership, government ownership, employee...
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volatility, generating a negative volatility skew in option prices. Using a large sample of U.S. equity options, we provide …
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This study examines whether application of IFRS by non-US firms results in accounting amounts comparable to those … resulting from application of US GAAP by US firms. IFRS firms have greater accounting system and value relevance comparability … with US firms when IFRS firms apply IFRS than when they applied domestic standards. Comparability is greater for firms that …
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I argue that external financial reporting quality has at best a 2nd order effect on firm value of U.S. publicly traded companies and that attempts to improve a firm's external reporting quality has a 3rd order effect on these firms' value. Recognizing that external financial reporting quality is...
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