This study extends the accounting-based valuation framework of Ohlson (1995) and Feltham and Ohlson (1999) to incorporate dynamic expectations about the level of systematic risk in the economy. Our model explains recent empirical findings documenting a strong negative association between changes...

We model the dynamic survival of earning fixated traders in a competitive security market populated by heterogeneous investors that allows for learning and arbitrage. We prove that in the absence of noise traders, rational investors will drive out earnings fixated investors from the market in...

This study examines (leverage) underinvestment and overinvestment hypotheses, taking into account whether growth is anticipated or unanticipated and controlling for potential reverse causality. This study sheds light on the following question: Does financial leverage affect the firm's ability to...

This study extends the accounting-based valuation framework of Ohlson (1995) and Feltham and Ohlson (1999) to incorporate dynamic expectations about the level of systematic risk in the economy. Our model explains recent empirical findings documenting a strong negative association between changes...

This study extends the accounting-based valuation framework of Ohlson (1995) and Feltham and Ohlson (1999) to incorporate dynamic expectations about the level of systematic risk in the economy. Our model explains recent empirical findings documenting a strong negative association between changes...

There is a profound gap between models of accounting conservatism and the proxies for conditional conservatism currently used by the empirical literature. Not one of the proxies employed by the empirical literature to date obtains from a rigorous definition of conditional conservatism. In...