This study addresses whether the market views the venturer's share of the assets and liabilities of Jointly Controlled Entities (JCEs) as assets and liabilities of the venturer. The role of JCEs' assets and liabilities is a key question underlying the international debate on the appropriate...

This study investigates the factors influencing the timeliness of corporate financial reporting, highlighting the differences between publicly listed family and non-family firms. The empirical analysis relies on the firms listed in the Portuguese Stock Exchange, where a relatively large...

This study analyzes the impact of IFRS adoption on earnings management in the emerging country which is probably the most important economy in the world that has adopted IFRS mandatorily, Brazil. We examine the distributions of reported earnings in order to find discontinuities around the zero...

This study provides empirical evidence on howcorporate sustainability performance (CSP), as proxied bymembership of the Dow Jones sustainability index, isreflected in the market value of equity. Using a theoreticalframework combining institutional perspectives, stakeholdertheory, and...

Using a two-regime switching regression approach to account for the endogeneity of sustainability reputation, this study investigates whether the market valuation of two summary accounting measures, book value of equity and net income, is higher for firms with a reputation for sustainability...