The purpose of this paper is to update and re-examine the role of corporate narrative reporting in improving investors' ability to better forecast future earnings change. We also construct a risk factor for disclosure quality (DQ) and test whether such a factor is useful in explaining the...

The extent to which accruals quality (AQ) is relevant for asset pricing has been debated widely. Prior research in this area has focused almost exclusively on the US. Using UK data, we investigate whether AQ portfolios exhibit evidence of significant mispricing, and whether an AQ factor is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify a number of important facts about info-gap decision theory. Design/methodology/approach – Theorems are put forward to rebut claims made about info-gap decision theory in papers published in this journal and elsewhere. Findings – Info-gap's...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify a number of important facts about info-gap decision theory. Design/methodology/approach – Theorems are put forward to rebut claims made about info-gap decision theory in papers published in this journal and elsewhere. Findings – Info-gap's...

This study explores the information content of HML and SMB by linking the Fama-French factors to shocks in the state variables which predict future investment opportunities. It shows that the HML factor contains information about shocks to default spread. Moreover, the Fama-French model explains...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the impact of aggregate and individual corporate governance provisions on firm performance on all firms listed at Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE) for the period between 2011 and 2015. In addition, it disentangles ownership structure provision to ownership...