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This paper investigates the driver of asset growth to explain the cross-country variation of the asset growth effect. We find that institutional restrictions on equity financing constrain firms' abilities to grow assets, and the degree of such restrictions is associated with the observed...
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This study examines whether U.S. effective tax rates on foreign income of U.S. multinationals (MNCs) vary according to the favorability of U.S. macroeconomic conditions relative to those of non-U.S. countries. We use the pre-Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 regime as our setting and present...
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Firm Profitability - Does it really matter for shareholder return or ROE (return on equity)? Does this question sound oxymoron and antithetic? Not really. On the contrary, evidence has surfaced that Returns on equity - based on the shareholders' equity accounted in the balance sheet - is not...
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, the modelling depends on two critical ingredients. First, it requires an unbiased valuation anchor which in the long run …
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disclosure, where additional disclosure reduces estimation risk or information asymmetry. Empirical studies based on these models …
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We measure ex-ante expectation errors by identifying sporadic versus persistent total asset growth ex-ante. Corporate profitability of high (low) asset-growth firms remains inferior (superior) after temporary asset expansion (contraction), hence ex-ante expectation errors are high. Corporate...
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valuation-useful accounting information. Namely, this paper expects wealthy economies to have more controlling-useful, but not … necessarily more valuation-useful accounting information. For wealthy economies, the authors expect the reporting environments … participants require more valuation-useful and the banking sector participants more controlling-useful accounting information. To …
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establishing tax neutrality in corporate valuation …
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We apply the discontinuity methodology from the accounting literature to a political economy setting of GDP reporting and examine whether Chinese local governments manage regional GDP numbers. We find strong evidence of discontinuities around zero in the distribution of actual minus target GDP...
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This study finds that the association between future stock returns and information quality depends on how option-like is the firm's equity. Firms that have more growth options are more option-like. The association between future stock returns and information quality is negative (positive) for...
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