This study investigates the monitoring role of media tone on Chief Executive Officer (CEO) power. Using CEO pay slice (CPS) as a measure of CEO power, we find that negative tone is associated with a reduction in CEO power. The finding extends the theoretical framework explaining the importance...

In this paper, we examine whether managers time their debt-equity choices to exploit market mispricing. Controlling for the level of external financing and corporate investment activities, we find evidence consistent with the market timing hypothesis. We find managers issue more equity relative...

Extant research on the accruals anomaly is based on returns starting a few months after fiscal year ends, not when accruals are publicly known. We explore the nature of the accruals anomaly by analyzing the speed of price adjustment to accruals information from the date when accruals first...