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accounting information. We combine this with opinions from the academic and practitioner communities to critically evaluate key …
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By employing two alternative measures of fundamental value, we re-examine the value relevance of accounting information …). Overall, we do not find evidence that there is a loss over time in the value relevance of accounting information with respect … well as other arbitrage costs and risks (such as transaction costs and information uncertainty) that prohibit market prices …
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We find that shorts establish significant positions more than a year before the average restatement announcement, those positions increase as the announcement month approaches, and the largest positions are held in companies that will announce an accounting irregularity that attracts class...
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We predict that a firm's greater accounting comparability with its industry peers facilitates its learning from those peer firms' research and development (R&D) investments, allowing that firm to have greater innovative efficiency. We estimate accounting comparability using pro-forma capitalized...
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Product market competition has been identified as one of the most powerful corporate governance tools for motivating managers to maximize firm value. Consistent with this view, a large body of theoretical and empirical research over the years has investigated the implications of product market...
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In frictionless capital markets with complete information and rational investors, stock prices adjust to new … information instantaneously and completely. However, a substantial body of research studies information imperfections such as … asymmetric information and incomplete information. Information imperfections potentially hinder timely price discovery and are …
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information, and (ii) the accounting quality component of price delay predicts stock returns. We define accounting quality as the …
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We suggest that the failure of investors to distinguish between an earnings component's autocorrelation coefficient (unconditional persistence) and the marginal contribution of that component's persistence to the persistence of earnings (conditional persistence) provides a partial explanation to...
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Whether and how accounting information quality affects the cost of capital has been a matter of much debate. We … contribute to this debate by linking accounting information quality to systematic risk, inspired by recent theoretical … accounting information quality is significantly and negatively related to systematic risk. This relation is robust to alternative …
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We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability diminishes for firms with large disagreement between raters. Relation between news and market reaction is moderated...
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