Our work tests the usefulness of score measures based on fundamental signals in an out-of-sample study during the past two decades. While previous research, primarily focused on the US, demonstrates that fundamental signals derived from financial statements allow for future abnormal stock...

This paper contributes to the literature by indicating how the effect of monetary policies, such as interest rates, the zero lower bound (ZLB) and differential volatility between long-term and short-term interest rates, impact the incentives of firms' managers in the US in recent years and how...

This paper examines the effect of managers' liability exposure on earnings conservatism in the banking industry. Focusing on a wide international sample of commercial banks and using TIER1 as a proxy of bank managers' exposure to litigation, our results show a negative relationship between the...

The authors analyze commercial banks' profitability (return on equity, ROE) at different levels of creditor rights and an aggregate score of information sharing in terms of credit bureaus. After controlling for bank size and some macroeconomic variables, the results indicate that profitability...

Coordination problems amongst creditors are reduced when a firm's debt structure is concentrated in fewer debt types. Using a sample of US non-financial firms, we show that an increase in risk-taking incentives in CEO pay is associated with a greater debt concentration by debt type. This result...

This study contrasts the reliability of Abnormal ROE (residual income scaled by beginning-of-period book value of equity) estimates based on value drivers with a contextual approach in the commercial bank industry of the OECD countries. We identify the key theoretical variables from the banking...