This paper investigates the interaction among a firm's knowledge capital, growth opportunities, earning dynamics, and optimal leverage level. Under the corporate taxation and personal taxation framework, by assuming that knowledge capital positively affects the realization of a firm's growth...

Technology spillovers across firms affect corporate innovation, productivity, and value, according to prior research, so information about technology spillovers should matter to investors. We argue that technology spillovers increase the complexity and uncertainty of value relevant information...

Research Question - What are the impacts of digital transformation of accounting practices and behavior following the COVID-19 pandemic? Motivation - The outbreak of the health crisis linked to COVID-19 pandemic has turned massively the companies to adopt digital platforms for accounting...

Financial ties between drug companies and medical researchers are thought to bias results published in medical journals. To enable readers to account for such bias, most medical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest. For such policies to be effective, conflict...

Over the last few years European banks have spent billions of euros on new electronic channels. However, after some years of excitement it was clear that the banks’ long-awaited sky-rocketing profits from this area would not be netted. Estonian banks have also invested in expanding and...

This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we analyze two innovations that have had different...

Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics.

Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...

Accounting research on choices of inventory valuation methods has focused on various consequences of two extreme methods: LIFO and FIFO. The main consequence studies relate to effects of the differences in taxes payable between the two methods on security prices. However, tax consequences appear...

This study aims at (1) developing an index to measure CEO risk tolerance using publicly available data, and (2) examining the association between this index and investment in risky projects. Using relative pay-at-risk as a proxy for risk preference (tolerance) is a new proposition and is...