In recent years, German companies report consolidated financial statements under German GAAP, U.S. GAAP, or International Accounting Standards (IAS). Market observers, researchers, and regulators have argued that financial statements prepared under the shareholder (or investor) model, such as...

This paper conducts an empirical investigation of the relationship between information asymmetry and real activities manipulation. When information asymmetry is high, stakeholders do not have sufficient resource, incentives, or access to relevant information to monitor manager‘s actions, which...

This paper examines how simultaneous presence of domestic accounting standards of various countries affects market reactions to firms' earnings announcements and subsequent post-earnings announcement drifts (PEAD) in U.S market. Drawing from the finance and accounting literatures on investors'...

In recent years, several accounting standards, including IFRS 3, issued by the IASB substitute historical cost with fair value measures and so provide managers with increased discretion to determine the fair value without an actual market for the asset. Using Swedish data, we document the...

Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two accounting fundamentals ― book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation predict the cross section of out-of-sample returns in 26 of 29 international equity markets, with a highly...

Analysts often update their recommendations following corporate news. Questions have been raised regarding analysts' ability to generate new information beyond recent corporate events. Employing a comprehensive database on corporate news we show that only a small minority of 27.9% of all...

High-frequency trading has become a dominant force in the U.S. capital market, accounting for over 70% of dollar trading volume. This study examines the implication of high-frequency trading for stock price volatility and price discovery. I find that high-frequency trading is positively...

The sensitivity of stock valuations to expected earnings growth, termed as the growth premium, fluctuates substantially over time. This study empirically investigates whether these fluctuations can be explained by investor sentiment. The testable prediction is that investor sentiment affects the...

Almost all studies on research and development (R&D) activity are based on US and British companies, and most of them show that this activity positively influences both stock returns and corporate value. This empirical study evaluates the effects of R&D on stock returns for a sample of listed...

This paper investigates whether markets for individual stocks lose liquidity when uninformed investors are given options to avoid trading against informed investors. I find a positive association between the percentage of firm shares being held by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and illiquidity in...