We examine the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (RFD) on transient institutional investors' abnormal trading behavior around accounting Restatements before and after RFD. We find that while before RFD, transient institutional investors exhibit abnormal selling of stocks in restating firms...

We examine the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (RFD) on transient institutional investors' abnormal trading behavior around accounting restatements. We find that while in the pre-RFD period, transient institutional investors exhibit abnormal selling of restating firms' stocks one quarter...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and evaluate a new matching sample comparison method, the industry size peer matching method. Design/methodology/approach – Based on archival financial data from Compustat and econometric methods, the paper first validates that such a method...

This paper tests whether a negative stock market reaction, associated with a management forecast of near term bad earnings, is lessened by a concurrent management forecast of improved longer term earnings expectations. Stock market reactions depend on the creditability of management forecasts of...