We examine the extent to which current operating cash flows are incorporated in future earnings targets in executive compensation. Using target and actual compensation earnings per share (EPS) disclosed in proxy statements for large U.S. public companies, we find that revision of the following...

This study examines whether material corporate events that occur during the year-end closing process constrain management's and the auditor's resources and inhibit them from providing high quality financial reports. For a sample of U.S. company financial reports issued during 2000–2013, we...

Recent research suggests managerial short-termism is associated with lower corporate sustainability, measured by environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and sustainable institutional ownership. Using plant-level data on toxic releases from the United States Environmental Protection...

We used the log-periodic power law singularity (LPPLS) methodology to systematically investigate the 2020 stock market crash in the U.S. equities sectors using the Wilshire 5000 Total Market index, the S&P 500 index, the S&P MidCap 400 index, and the Russell 2000 index. During the crash, all...

In this study, we adopted the Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) model for real-time identification and monitoring of Bitcoin bubbles and crashes using different time scale data and proposed the modified Lagrange regularization method to alleviate the impact of potential LPPLS model...