This study examines the association between annual stock returns of firms listed on the Athens Stock Exchange and the tax benefits of mandated fixed assets revaluations that occurred in the years 1982, 1988 and 1992. A significant association is found for the revaluations that occurred in 1992...

The purpose of this paper is to present a study of the evolution of accounting regulation within one country in the context of that country's historical development, the origins and motivations of the legal system and the state, and the subsequent outcomes in terms of accounting rules and...

This study examined empirically the value relevance of, first, the total reported consolidated accounting earnings and, secondly, the earnings of the subsidiaries attributed to the parent company, under a cost of acquisition regime, via an association study. Various alternative models were...

This study examines the association between stock prices and tax credits for new investment, which appear in the balance sheet as a tax-free reserve. A number of valuation models were developed for companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange during the period 1990-4. The empirical findings...

We investigate the relation between share prices and the proportion of equity held by institutional investors for a sample of 52 companies quoted on the Athens Stock Exchange over the period from 1991 to 1996. We differ from earlier studies in as much as use is made of a) an explicit share...

This paper uses a valuation framework for a sample of firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, and United Kingdom) to examine how are their accounting income and book value of equity perceived by the respective capital markets after taking into account industry effects....

This study examines the association between stock prices and tax credits for new investment, which appear in the balance sheet as a tax-free reserve. A number of valuation models were developed for companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange during the period 1990 - 1994. The empirical...

This study investigates the relationship of asymmetric cost behaviour with earnings quality for European listed firms. We employ a sample that consists of 11,416 firm-year observations of European listed firms over the period 2005-2019 to explore the relationship of asymmetric cost behaviour...

This paper assesses the impact of mandatory IFRS adoption in Greece. Our research is motivated by an ongoing debate about the efficacy of enforcing high quality accounting standards in controversial economies with unfavorable economic infrastructures. We perceive Greece as a representative...

We investigate the monetary linkage between aggregate accounting profitability changes and inflation. Recent previous evidence reveals a strong relation between aggregate earnings changes and the three components of expected stock market returns (i.e., real riskless rate, expected inflation, and...