We study the impact of short sales on accrual-based and real earnings management (EM). Based on the costs and benefits of using EM to hide negative information, we derive an analytical model showing that there are two possibilities: 1) a firm engages in less accrual-based and real EM when facing...

We examine the impact of earnings management uncertainty (EMU) on bond yield spreads in China. In the process, we decompose the bond yield spread into liquidity and default yield spreads. The findings suggest that EMU primarily drives the default yield spread of a corporate bond and that its...

Leveraging the required disclosure of three-year before initial public offering (IPO) data in Chinese IPO firms, we examine the real earnings management (REM) around IPOs with specific reference to IPO firms with and without a customer strategic alliance (CSA) relationship before IPO. Using a...