We investigate the monetary linkage between aggregate accounting profitability changes and inflation. Recent previous evidence reveals a strong relation between aggregate earnings changes and the three components of expected stock market returns (i.e., real riskless rate, expected inflation, and...

We investigate the implications of voluntary forecasting activity on the persistence of actual reported figures. We further explore the impact of managements' error direction (i.e. pessimistic versus optimistic manager) on the persistence of actual reported figures. We finally explore whether...

Using a sample of 1,619 commercial banks from 82 countries we investigate the impact of financial consumer protection policies on bank profit efficiency estimated with a production frontier function. Our results show that more regulatory requirements decrease bank profit efficiency. We confirm...