El Ghoul, Sadok; Hasan, Mostafa Monzur; Hossain, Ashrafee T - 2023
This article examines the relation between firm-level political risk (PRISK) and real earnings management (REM). Using a sample of U.S. firms from 2002 to 2019, we find that PRISK increases REM. This finding remains robust to using alternative measures of PRISK, alternative regression models,...