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This study examines whether and under what conditions common stock prices reflect the accounting mismeasurement of diluted EPS related to convertible instruments. As the costs and benefits of information processing related to the accounting mismeasurement are high, it is unclear under what...
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This paper illustrates how measurement error (“ME”) in dependent variables not only reduces power but, under common …
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While levels of actual and consensus forecast earnings per share (EPS) vary with scale (measured typically by share price), magnitudes of the difference do not vary with scale. That is, forecast errors within a certain range (e.g., plus/minus 5 cents per share) are equally likely for both...
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We develop and test a model linking the duration of financial fraud to information produced by auditors and analysts … and efforts by managers to conceal the fraud. Our empirical results suggest fraud termination is more likely in the …, indicating auditors' observable signals reduce fraud duration. Analyst attention increases the likelihood of fraud termination …
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Reliable information on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is rare and costly for financial intermediaries. To compensate for this, relationship banking is often considered as the appropriate lending technique in the case of SMEs. In this paper we offer a theoretical model to analyze the...
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In multiple-task hidden-action models, the (mis-)allocation of effort may play an important role for benefit creation. Signals which capture this benefit and which are used in incentive schemes should thus not only be judged by the noise and the associated costs but also by the mis-allocation...
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In multiple-task hidden-action models, the (mis-)allocation of effort may play an important role for benefit creation. Signals which capture this benefit and which are used in incentive schemes should thus not only be judged by the noise and the associated costs but also by the mis-allocation...
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In the model there are two types of financial auditors with identical technology, one of which is endowed with a prior reputation for honesty. We characterize conditions under which there exists a "two-tier equilibrium" in which "reputable" auditors refuse bribes offered by clients for fear of...
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For mitigating the problems of transfer pricing formula apportionment (FA) is discussed intensively. However, FA could even be more harmful than transfer pricing because income shifting would require changing economic decisions instead of just taking advantage of accounting options. We analyze...
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