This paper investigates the association between investor sentiment and accounting conservatism. We find that managers recognize economic losses in earnings in a more timely manner during periods of high investor sentiment. Further, the sentiment-conservatism relation is stronger for firms with...

This paper investigates the impact of investor sentiment on conditional accounting conservatism. We find that companies recognize economic losses more (less) timely in earnings during periods of high (low) investor sentiment. Further, the sentiment-conservatism relationship is stronger for firms...

Prior literature documents that short sale activity clusters around mandated short sale position disclosures. We investigate two competing hypotheses for this finding in the UK market: herding- versus information-based trading. First, using an entropy-balanced matched sample of stocks, we find...