Altamuro and Beatty (2009) examine financial reporting quality before and after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). They document increases in the validity of the loan-loss provision, earnings persistence, predictability of future cash flows and reductions in...

Purpose –This study aims to examine whether limited attention leads to the market underreaction to earnings announcement and 10-K filings. Design/methodology/approach–This is an empirical study involving statistical analysis of a large sample of data, obtained from Compustat, CRSP and...

We find that insiders trade as if they exploit market underreaction to earnings news, buying (selling) after good (bad) earnings announcements when the price reaction to the announcement is low (high). We also find that insider trades attributable to public information about earnings and the...

We examine the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (RFD) on transient institutional investors' abnormal trading behavior around accounting restatements. We find that while in the pre-RFD period, transient institutional investors exhibit abnormal selling of restating firms' stocks one quarter...

In this paper we develop a new form of economic - environmental input - output model to analyze the complicated interactions among economic sectors and environmental sectors. This model deals with both traditional economic sectors and the pollution elimination sector in terms of volume and...