We examine investment banks' strategic entry and market share gain in the new China H-share IPO (HIPO) market since 1993. Investment banks would have the incentive in initial years to obtain the HIPO business by low balling, i.e., providing high offer prices to the issuer, leading to a lower...

We introduce some new econometric tests and techniques for identifying and overcoming the problem of weak instruments in the context of joint provision of audit and non-audit fees. We use this context because identifying appropriate instruments is difficult due to the lack of theoretical...

The investor composition in the US stock market has been undergoing a dramatic shift towards greater institutional ownership. In this paper, we show that the increase in the stock ownership by institutions over time, especially those with focus on short-term performance, is positively related to...

Corporate sustainability can be broadly defined as the pursuit of a business growth strategy by allocating financial or in-kind resources of the corporation to a social or environmental initiative. Today, more than ever, corporate sustainability has risen to the status of strategic business...

We investigate the effect of the career concerns of young CEOs and of female CEOs on their willingness to issue voluntary earnings forecasts. We argue that the labor market's perception about a young CEO's uncertain talent leads to a stronger desire to establish a good reputation by issuing more...

Over the past two decades, there has been growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) among accounting scholars. As a testament to this growing interest, two review papers on CSR were published last year in accounting journals. Cohen and Simnett (2015) review the academic...

Research has established that Ramp;D-intensive firms are characterized by substantial future risk-adjusted stock returns. The reasons for this phenomenon and its policy implications, however, are widely debated. Some attribute the excess returns to investors' systematic undervaluation of Ramp;D...

We examine the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (RFD) on transient institutional investors' abnormal trading behavior around accounting Restatements before and after RFD. We find that while before RFD, transient institutional investors exhibit abnormal selling of stocks in restating firms...

We examine the economic effects of barriers to entry and rigidity of wages signaled by the foreign currency translation adjustment on multinational firms' stock returns. Specifically, based on economic theories an appreciation (depreciation) of the foreign currency exchange rate could signal (a)...

We examine the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (RFD) on first-forecast horizon of analysts' earnings forecasts. The first-forecast horizon is computed as the number of calendar days between the issue of the analysts' first earnings forecast for a quarter and the fiscal quarter-end date. We...