The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 created a tax holiday allowing firms to repatriate foreign earnings at a reduced tax rate and a domestic production activities deduction (DPAD) to encourage domestic investment. We investigate whether the DPAD affects firms' decisions to use repatriated...

Recent studies indicate that both current Ramp;D investment levels and current or recent changes in Ramp;D investment are positively associated with subsequent excess (risk-adjusted) stock returns. The tentative explanation offered for these results is that shares of Ramp;D-intensive firms are...

Numerous studies have used the proportion of anomalous returns earned during earnings announcement intervals as evidence to distinguish between risk and mispricing explanations for those returns. This approach implicitly assumes that returns expected as compensation for risk-bearing are earned...

Investment professionals often suggest that accounting earnings is a more useful indicator of share value if adjusted by substituting current capital expenditures for reported depreciation. We investigate the usefulness of this alternative depreciation measure by comparing the ability of...

This study provides evidence on the potential usefulness of depreciation accounting to investors. We first document the extent to which depreciation numbers reported in accordance with current accounting standards improve accounting earnings as a source of information for valuing firms'...

This study investigates the extent to which potential financial reporting benefits from capitalizing and amortizing Ramp;D costs depend on increasing the level of discretion permitted to financial statement preparers. To provide evidence on this issue, we examine the impact of alternative...

In 1999, the Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed changes in the accounting for business combinations and intangibles that would significantly increase the level of goodwill amortization in corporate income statements. In an effort to make goodwill accounting more transparent, the...

In this paper, we provide evidence on the potential informational benefits of capitalizing and amortizing Ramp;D costs by comparing the extent to which financial statements that reflect alternative Ramp;D accounting schemes explain the cross-sectional distribution of share prices. We find that...