This paper theoretically examines the impact of conservatism on the asset price in an asset market allowing for strategic interactions among traders. Due to the trades coming from conservatism traders contain less informational content, the asset price is shown to be less informative in the...

This paper presents an one-period model of an one-asset market allowing for the strategic interaction among rational traders and earnings fixated traders. Earnings fixated traders are functionally fixated on the reported earnings numbers in formulating their trading strategies without paying...

This paper presents a static model of a competitive securities market. In the market there are two assets: risk-free asset and risky asset. The payoff of the risk-free asset is one and the payoff of the risky asset is unknown. Rational traders correctly estimate the mean and variance of the...

This paper examines how the investor's belief about the project's ability of generating cash flow affects accounting standard setting. It proves analytically that the accounting standard in the Stackelberg equilibrium of the static model increases with the increase in the investor's belief about...