Most of the investors believe that publishing financial statement and accounting earnings will transfer information to the capital market and this information will effect on price and stock transaction amounts. Accountants were always concern about questions such as: Whether is a practical...

This study investigates whether CEO Big Five personalities (i.e., agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness) are associated with stock price crash risk. The Big Five can influence managerial behaviors to withhold or release bad news. When the amount of withheld...

This paper studies the role of optimal managerial compensation in reducing uncertainty about manager reporting objectives. It is shown that, paradoxically, firm owners allow managers with higher propensity to manipulate the short-term stock price to push for higher-powered and more short-term...

This paper studies the role of optimal managerial compensation in reducing uncertainty about manager reporting objectives. It is shown that, paradoxically, firm owners allow managers with higher propensity to manipulate the short‐term stock price to push for higher powered and more...

The optimal view of managerial power theory suggests that corporate boards reward CEOs with power for good firm performance as the boards' assessment of their ability is higher. In evaluating the CEO's quality, economic theory predicts that boards filter out luck from performance. Luck...

This paper highlights the presence of investors' sentiments in the stock market with empirical evidences. Further it lays down the importance of stock market investment with the proper understanding of the sentiments.In this new millennium, with high speed technology which provides easy...

India has one of the biggest capital markets in Emerging Countries. It has a large number of listed companies, brokers, financial institutions. There is also increasing stock trading community. Most of the retail players now follow Fundamental and Technical Analysis for their stock selection and...

This study examines the impact of institutions and culture on stock market reactions to divestment announcements. We posit that divestment announcements in countries with stronger shareholder protection generate higher positive returns than divestments in countries with weaker shareholder...

Purpose: This research aims to explore the link between corporate governance mechanism and stock price crash risk under the complementary role of IFRS adoption in Pakistan.Design/methodology/approach: Data has been extracted from the financial statements of 155 non-financial firms listed in PSX...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate how interdependence of new product development (NPD) communications, i.e., new product introduction announcements preceded by past preannouncements affects firms’ security prices. Past research has focused on communication events...