In this paper we address two important questions that emerged in the aftermath of the recent banking crisis. First, did the financial statements of the bank holding companies provide an early warning of their impending distress? Second, whether the actions of four key financial intermediaries...

We investigate Beaver's (2002) conjecture that the accruals anomaly is a manifestation of the glamour stock phenomenon documented in the finance literature. Value (glamour) stocks, characterized by low (high) past sales growth, high (low) B/M, high (low) E/P and high (low) C/P, are known to earn...

We study carbon reduction pledges of publicly traded U.S. oil exploration and production (E&P) companies. Of the 69 firms in the sample, 18 have committed to net-zero carbon targets, 14 have announced significant emissions cuts, while the remaining 37 firms have not announced any formal...

We investigate whether the accruals anomaly documented by Sloan (1996) in the accounting literature is distinct from the value-glamour anomaly documented in the finance literature. We find that the accruals strategy earns abnormal returns incremental to past sales growth, book-to-market and...