Our paper examines the effect of product market competition on firms' incentives to misreport financial information to investors. We examine three specific channels through which product market competition can affect the information environment in an industry and individual firms' incentives to...

We examine three information channels through which product market interactions in an industry can affect firms' incentives to misreport financial information to investors. We find that lower product market sensitivity to individual firm' information and greater use of relative performance...

Our paper examines the effect of product market competition on firms' incentives to misreport financial information to investors. We examine three specific channels through which product market competition can affect the information environment in an industry and individual firms' incentives to...

We examine how a firm's incentive to commit fraud when going public varies with investor beliefs about industry business conditions. Fraud propensity increases with the level of investor beliefs about industry prospects but decreases in the presence of extremely high beliefs. Evidence suggests...