Putting an end to the “earnings game” requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should provide information about...

We find that investment responds more sensitively to a firm's Tobin's q when its share price is more discrete. Low-price U.S. stocks exhibit higher investment-q sensitivity, but this pattern disappears in countries whose tick sizes increase with share prices. Using Tick Size Pilot Program as a...

We propose the standard neoclassical model of investment under uncertainty with short-run adjustment frictions as a benchmark for earnings-return patterns absent accounting influences. We show that our proposed benchmark generates a wide range of earnings-return patterns documented in accounting...

We propose the standard neoclassical model of investment under uncertainty with short‐run adjustment frictions as a benchmark for earnings‐return patterns absent accounting influences. We show that our proposed benchmark generates a wide range of earnings‐return patterns documented in...

We provide evidence that increased reporting frequency enhances the extent to which stock prices guide managers' investment decisions. Using a generalized difference-in-differences research design, we find the sensitivity of investment to stock price increased for Mandatory Adopters following an...

We document that the variance risk premium in asset returns decreases firms' investments.We theoretically model the premium; we find that it increases the value of the real optionto delay an investment and, thus, influences investments negatively. Empirically, we verifythe negative link between...

We examine how the market valuation of firms varies on account of characteristics that make them vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic across different stages of the crisis. Using plant location data that uniquely identify the vulnerability of firms to operational disruptions, we find that firms...

We argue the earnings announcement premium is a measure of firm-specific uncertainty aversion. Our stylized model shows earnings announcements, as pure news events, are priced only if investors are uncertainty averse; further, the earnings announcement return is negatively correlated to future...

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are viewed currently as pillars of relative political, economic and financial stability, with the prospect of a major shift in future world power. The paper aims at investigating the relationships among the economic, financial and political...

This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on firms’ investment sensitivity to their peers’ stock prices. We find that investment increasingly responds to the variation of peers’ prices during the high policy uncertainty period in China. To deal with the...