This paper investigates how mergers and acquisitions affect corporate performance for three years after their implementation. The corporate performance of 162 mergers and acquisitions that took place in Japan from 2001 to 2003, is analyzed by using Wilcoxon singed-rank tests. We find that...

This article investigates whether and how the Japanese Financial Services Agency’s mandatory use of XBRL affects investors in assessing financial information. Although regulators expect the introduction of XBRL to enhance the transparency and quality of business reporting, given the...

This article investigates stock price reactions to the release of the environmental management ranking issued by Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei newspaper) from 1998 to 2005, by using a standard event study methodology. An examination of stock price movements of the top 100 manufacturing companies...

This paper investigates how capital markets in a code-law country, Japan, react to the disclosure of internal control weaknesses (ICW). The Japanese government attempted to implement a more concise, efficient, and, thus, less strict internal control reporting system than Section 404 of the...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, which is owned by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), on the stock prices of the other electric power utilities in Japan. Because the other utilities were not directly damaged by...

This paper investigates the conditions under which a large creditor offers refinancing to a debtor firm and examines how that refinancing affects the decisions of the debtor firm and other creditors. We develop a model of a coordination game in which the actions of multiple creditors and the...

This paper studies the effects of oral interventions on the JPY/USD rate between 1995 and 2011. Traditionally, monetary authorities have intervened directly in foreign exchange markets. In recent years, however, actual interventions have been supplemented or supplanted by “oral...