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This paper develops and tests the hypothesis that accounting rules mitigate the effect of tax policy on firm investment … flows and accounting profits. I estimate the weight placed on accounting profits by comparing the effectiveness of tax … incentives that do and do not affect them. Investment tax credits, which do affect accounting profits, have larger effects on …
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We analyze a comprehensive sample of more than 10,000 U.S. stocks in the OTC market. As little is known about this market, we first characterize OTC firms by trading venue and provide evidence on survival, success, frequency of venue changes, reporting status, and trading activity. A large...
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Life insurers use accounting and actuarial techniques to smooth reporting of firm assets and liabilities, seeking to …-guaranteed surplus. Our goal is to illustrate how accounting and actuarial techniques for this type of financial contract shape …
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fire sales. We investigate whether capital requirements and accounting rules at financial institutions contributed to the … requirements increase as an asset's credit becomes impaired. When accounting rules require such an asset's value to be marked …
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We find that a firm's tendency to engage in financial misconduct increases with the misconduct rates of neighboring firms. This appears to be caused by peer effects, rather than exogenous shocks like regional variation in enforcement. Effects are stronger among firms of comparable size, and...
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independent auditing mitigates the problem, implying that accounting quality can enhance investments, size of public stock markets …
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Competition for positive attention in financial markets frequently resembles a tournament, where superior relative performance and greater visibility are rewarded with convex payoffs. We present a rational expectations model in which firms compete for such positive attention and show that higher...
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We construct accounting-based costs of equity for dollar neutral long-short trading strategies formed on a … dramatically from average realized returns. If accounting-based costs of equity are reasonable proxies for expected returns, the …
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We examine information spillover as a source of stock return synchronicity, where information about highly-followed "prominent" stocks is used to price other "neglected" stocks sharing a common fundamental component. We find that stocks followed by few analysts co-move significantly with...
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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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