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We provide evidence that outside directors’ trading and ratification decisions are incrementally useful in assessing their independence. Because crises test the independence of boards, we first investigate the CEO replacement decision in firms caught intentionally misreporting earnings. We...
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These slides summarize a paper on opportunism by corporate insiders. We show that opportunistic insiders can be identified through the profitability of their trades prior to quarterly earnings announcements (QEAs), and that opportunistic trading is associated with various kinds of...
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Casual observations suggest that bidder managers sometimes pay more than the economic value of target in mergers and … that bidder managers exploit their information advantage about the pricing implications of overpaid acquisitions by … acquisitions. Second, we document that bidder managers pay more than the economic value of targets not due to managerial hubris or …
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In this study, we examine whether the social capital surrounding the firm’s corporate headquarters mitigates managerial self-dealing in the form of opportunistic insider trading. We find strong evidence that the level of social capital in the region surrounding the firm’s headquarters is...
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Through close interactions with their CEO and CFO, independent directors as well as subordinate executives can assess the overconfidence of their CEO and CFO. We show that independent directors and subordinate executives trade on this assessment, albeit differently. Independent directors of a...
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by high-ability managers; and, 3) Disclose non-GAAP earnings more aggressively. Importantly, we also find that these … insider sales enable managers to avoid statistically significant negative abnormal returns. Our research demonstrates the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between earnings management and the gender of the firm's executives.Design/methodology/approach – Panel regressions of discretionary accruals on a set of female executive dummies and firm-specific controls.Findings – The...
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, absent explicit compensation contracts, managers do not engage in income-increasing earnings management early in their …
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represented by managers working in state-owned companies (BUMN) and non state-owned companies. The unit of analysis in this study … is Indonesian managers. The population of this study is all Indonesian managers working in the Jakarta stock exchange … difference of CSR perceived by managers working in SOC and POC. The rank of CSR dimensions perceived by managers is as follows …
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I examine the reputation and regulatory effects on the directors' turnover and their directorships when firms are accused of fraudulent financial reporting (FR). The results show that the directors at FR firms incur reputation costs from abnormal turnover in relation to the directors at non-FR...
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