Using Canadian-U.S. dollar data this paper examines the question of whether recent positive findings with regard to purchasing power parity carry over to the monetary approach to exchange rates. The evidence provides strong support for the long-run monetary model of exchange rates. At the same...

Prior studies of real-activity earnings management (REM) focus on earnings-inflating abnormal activities. We seek to establish the existence of downward REM by investigating several corporate events in which managers have incentives to temporarily deflate market valuations. Specifically, we...

Studies document an unexplained wage gap between male and female workers even as female workers have increased their human capital through skill and education. At the executive level, where skill and education are similar, the results on gender-based pay gap persist and are primarily attributed...