Zhongtianqin, the largest Chinese auditor in 2000, collapsed in 2001 owing to its audit failure. This study examines how the market reacted to the audit scandal in the Chinese institutional setting. Chinese investors are entitled to recover their investment losses from auditors owing to audit...

We examine the effect of the use of fairness opinions by acquirers on acquirers' short-term market performance. Our paper is the first to examine the effect of using fairness opinions on acquirers' abnormal returns around merger announcements. We hypothesize that acquirers purchase fairness...

This paper examines the trading volume reaction to the reconciliation of IAS-based earnings to U.S. GAAP on Form 20-F filed during the period of 1995-2001. The sample includes all non-U.S. firms that use IAS as their primary reporting standards and reconcile their earnings to U.S. GAAP in their...

This paper examines trading volume reaction to the reconciliation of IAS-based earnings to U.S. GAAP-based earnings. The sample includes foreign firms listed in the U.S. that use IAS as their primary reporting standards and reconcile their earnings to U.S. GAAP during the period of 1995-2004....

In this study, we investigate the implication of potential environmental liabilities for the reliability (noisiness) of accounting information as it manifests itself in the magnitude of ERC. Multiple regression analyses of abnormal stock returns on earnings surprise and other control variables...

In this paper we investigate the impact of cross-listings on information asymmetry risk, the cost of capital and firm value of a group of cross-listed Chinese companies. Our paper is the first to examine the effect of cross-listing on information asymmetry risk. Because cross-listed firms are...

We examine the effect of accounting conservatism on earnings persistence and the stock market's valuation of earnings. Using a sample of U.S. companies during the period of 1988-2010, we find that firms with more conservative accounting generate less persistent earnings than firms with less...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the implementation of a set of new auditing standards in 1996 on the information environment in the emerging markets in China. Because the implementation of such standards can increase the quality and/or quantity of accounting disclosures, it can be...