In this paper we study the impact of corporate governance characteristics on IPO firms' auditor choice in an emerging market setting. We use three corporate governance attributes – CEO-Chair duality, retained ownership, and foreign equity participation to test the impact of ownership structure...

The purpose of this research is to determine whether bankruptcy forecasting models are subject to industry and time specific effects. A sample of 15,848 firms was obtained from the Compustat and CRSP databases, spanning the time period 1950 to 2013, of which 396 were bankrupt. Using five models...

Notwithstanding significant contributions of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiate (EITI) to resource-rich countries accountability and transparency, the question of how information content by extractives firms' payments affect companies remains unanswered. We examine stock market reaction...

Notwithstanding significant contributions of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiate (EITI) to resource-rich countries accountability and transparency, the question of how information content by extractives firms' payments affect companies remains unanswered. We examine stock market reaction...

This study examines the effect of board ethics and board size on firms' choice of external auditor. Using a large sample of 132,853 firm year observations from forty-six countries around the globe, we find that the level of board ethics in the firm's country of domicile has a positive impact on...

This study examines the effects of secrecy and mandatory IFRS adoption on earnings quality proxied by signed abnormal accruals and earnings conservatism. Using 19,324 firm-years from 14 countries over the period 1998-2011, we find that firms in a high secrecy country tend to report higher...

This study examines the effect of mandatory IFRS adoption on earnings quality in countries which exhibit high financial secrecy. Earnings quality is proxied by signed abnormal accruals and earnings conservatism. Using 19,324 firm-years from 14 countries over the period 1998-2011, we find that...

This study examines the effect of mandatory IFRS adoption on earnings quality in countries which exhibit high financial secrecy. Earnings quality is proxied by signed abnormal accruals and earnings conservatism. Using 19,324 firm-years from 14 countries over the period 1998-2011, we find that...

Tunnelling (also known as self-dealing transactions) are non-arm's length transactions with related parties of controlling shareholders for private benefit at the cost of other shareholders. Tunnelling is a governance issue between controlling shareholders and minority shareholders in both...

This paper examines whether corporate donations have an impact on a firm's market value. We analyse 52,199 firm year observations on companies from 42 countries between 1998 and 2014. The regression model used to investigate the value relevance of corporate donations is the Collins, Pincus, &...