The study examines the effect of earnings management by classification shifting on firm success, focusing on the survival of newly listed firms. We argue that shifting income-decreasing expenses from core to special items should negatively associate with future operating performance because of...

IPO firms with high-powered CEO incentive contracts have lower failure rates in the aftermarket. Economically, an interquartile change in the distribution of CEO pay translates in a reduction of the failure risk probability by approximately 21%. The Pay Gap between the CEO and its subordinate...

Using the pay gap between a firm’s CEO and the highest-paid CEO among similar competing firms to conceptualize the prize of winning external promotion tournaments, we document a positive relationship between external tournament incentives (ETIs) and IPO underpricing – a proxy of the cost of...

We examine the effect of initial public offering (IPO) characteristics on seasoned equity offering (SEO) decisions in relation to governmental intervention in China. Our results confirm the process of underpriced IPOs in promoting earlier and larger IPOs in the Chinese context. The study...

This study empirically examines the effect of initial public offering (IPO) issuance on seasoned equity offering (SEO) decisions and the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. Results indicate that specific IPO characteristics, corporate governance issues, and firm-specific factors...

Companies that go public on global stock markets are not obliged to disclose earnings forecasts in their prospectuses. We use this fact to examine the shipping sector, where most firms issue earnings forecasts during the IPO process, and provide unique, international-level evidence. We find...

Greater partisan alignment among lawmakers enhances their ability to respond rapidly to adverse shocks, but it also undermines the quality of checks and balances and encourages excessive governmental intervention in local areas aligned with the ruling party. We investigate how this form of local...

This study identifies and empirically assesses the relationship between ESG reputational risk and corporate payouts. We provide robust evidence that ESG reputational risk stimulates higher payouts and that the presence of strong (weak) monitoring mechanisms amplifies (attenuates) this...

We uncover strong evidence that newly public firms run by financial expert CEOs have a lower probability of involuntary delisting and a longer survival time in the aftermarket. This result is robust to alternative definitions of long-term viability and endogeneity concerns. We attribute this...

This study examines the impact of having a credit rating on earnings management (EM) through accruals and real activities manipulation by initial public offering (IPO) firms. We find that firms going public with a credit rating are less likely to engage in income-enhancing accrual-based and real...