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We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. Using measures of time-varying catering incentives based on valuation ratios,...
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How do investors value managerial actions designed solely to minimize corporate tax obligations? Using a framework in which managers' tax sheltering decisions are related to their ability to divert value, this paper predicts that the effect of tax avoidance on firm value should vary...
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Under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123, the grant date value of executive stock options excludes the … value of any reload feature because, at the time of writing the standard in 1995, the Financial Accounting Standards Board …, the Financial Accounting Standards Board may wish to reconsider the accounting for options with a reload feature …
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Despite much recent interest in a consumption tax, the Treasury Department's November 1984 tax plan proposes to adopt carefully coordinated features of a more comprehensive income tax, including the indexation of interest, depreciation, and capital gains.The May 1985 White House proposal would...
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The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair …-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least …, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we assess these arguments and examine the role of fair-value accounting in the financial …
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statements. To examine the tradeoffs between financial and tax reporting, I model the relation discretionary financial accounting …
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In this paper, I argue that intangible capital is not a distinct input to production like physical capital or labor but rather it is the glue that creates value from other inputs. This perspective naturally leads to an empirical model in which intangible capital is defined in terms of adjustment...
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We develop a forward-looking profit model to estimate the depreciation rates of business R&D capital. By using data from BEA and NSF between 1987 and 2007, and the newly developed model, we estimate both constant and time-varying industry-specific R&D depreciation rates. The results comprise a...
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Integrating national accounting with financial accounting, we provide firm-specific estimates of current-cost capital …
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