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This paper examines whether currently available financial disclosures on acquired entities allow investors to effectively predict goodwill impairment, a task that has become more important following the recent abolishment of goodwill amortization. We track the performance of acquired companies...
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This research empirically examines the interaction between the choices of inventory accounting method and capital structure through a parsimonious test of the predictions from the signaling model of Hughes Schwartz and Thakor (1994). We find that the debt of firms remaining at FIFO decreases...
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We explain the puzzling empirical evidence on the investory accounting choice through a management signaling argument. We assert that firms with lower nominal production costs than other firms have relatively less to gain from the tax advantages assocaited with LIFO adoption. For these firms,...
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This paper considers a setting in which managers have private information about the values of their firms and can communicate it to uninformed investors through the use of two signals: capital structure and inventory accounting method. We show conditions under which a separating equilibrium with...
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We study the compensation earned by CEOs in private venture-backed firms. We extend the traditional view of pay-for-performance by proposing that the economic characteristics of startups and venture capital markets interact in such a way that CEOs will be rewarded for successfully raising new...
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