This paper investigates the impact of margin trading on firms' financial reporting. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach that exploits staggered elimination of margin trading bans, it reports a significant effect of margin trading on earnings management. Treated firms increase...

This paper studies the impact of public audit oversight on financial reporting credibility. We analyze changes in market responses to earnings news after public audit oversight is introduced, exploiting that the regime onset depends on fiscal year-ends, auditors, and the rollout of auditor...

We examine the period over which banking authorities discussed, adopted, and implemented Basel III to understand whether, when, and how firms respond to proposed regulation. We find evidence to suggest that the affected banks not only lobbied rule makers against it, but these banks also made...

Financial restatements are costly, but frequent, events and many firms restate several times. This paper asks why rational managers engage in misreporting, in spite of the costly consequences. We present a simple extension to the Fischer and Verrecchia (2000) model, which provides testable...

This paper studies the impact of public audit oversight on financial reporting credibility. We analyze changes in market responses to earnings news after public audit oversight is introduced, exploiting that the regime onset depends on fiscal-year ends, auditors, and the roll-out of auditor...

I examine the relation between borrowers' accounting information and banks' lending decisions, measured in terms of nonperforming loans (NPLs) and pooling of borrowers (i.e., the inability to price-differentiate borrowers). If the information contained in borrowers' financial statements affects...

This study evaluates the IPO quiet period, which restricts managers' ability to publicly communicate in the weeks immediately following the IPO. I investigate the effectiveness of and compliance with the quiet period for a sample of 3,380 IPOs from 1996 through 2011, and report several key...

I examine whether tax return information is incrementally useful to equity investors relative to publicly-available information, such as financial statements. To test this relation, I exploit unique features of the syndicated loan market, as prior literature shows that lenders obtain tax returns...

This paper clarifies determinants of the readability of Management and Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) section from annual reports of Japanese companies extracted from Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL). Previous studies have focused on English-language information, with no...

This paper draws on two distinct literatures ndash; one that investigates the impact of accounting restatements and another that investigates the trading behavior of short sellers ndash; to further our understanding of how sophisticated investors process and respond to news about accounting...