Despite the number of studies on bankruptcy prediction using financial ratios, very little is known about how external audit information can contribute to anticipating financial distress. A handful of papers have shown that a combination of ratios and audit data is significant for predictive...

Zum Inhalt: Informationen des Managements über die zukünftige Entwicklung des Unternehmens sind für Anleger von besonderem Interesse. Im Kapitalmarktrecht findet sich eine Vielzahl von Prognoseberichtspflichten. Zukunftsbezogene Informationen werden etwa im Wertpapierprospekt, im Lagebericht...

We document that the firm level hiring rate predicts stock returns in the cross-section of US publicly traded firms even after controlling for investment, size, book-to-market and momentum as well as other known predictors of stock returns. The predictability shows up in both Fama-MacBeth cross...