While aggregate earnings should affect aggregate stock returns, standard portfolio theory predicts that the cross-sectional dispersion in firm-level earnings would not affect aggregate stock returns. Nonetheless, this paper demonstrates a surprisingly robust relation between cross-sectional...

his paper develops a theoretical model to understand the role of accounting conservatism in debt contracts, incorporating the possible renegotiation of debt contracts with accounting-based covenants. I find that the demand for accounting conservatism depends on whether renegotiation occurs and...

This study examines how accounting conservatism may affect the information environment of analysts' earnings forecasts, taking into account the interaction between unconditional and conditional conservatism. Unconditional conservatism preempts conditional conservatism in the later period and...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DESCRIPTION OF THE INDICATOR -- III. MODEL DESCRIPTION -- IV. DATA DESCRIPTION -- V. FACTOR ANALYSIS: ESTIMATION RESULTS -- VI. COMPUTATION OF THE PROBABILITIES OF DEFAULT -- VII. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS -- VIII. STRESS TESTING -- IX. CONCLUDING REMARKS...

Building on an auction model, we examine the economic consequences of audit retendering, under which the incumbent auditor in auction possesses both an information advantage and knowledge advantage over outside auditors. Audit retendering allows the firm to retain the incumbent auditor with...