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investor protection. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting standards as a tool to reduce management misbehavior …
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We consider a principal-agent relationship, where the agent is subject to a double moral hazardproblem (the choice of production effort and earnings manipulation). Since the agent cannot completely capture the results of his effort, the production effort is socially inefficient. The opportunity...
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The empirical literature often theorizes that managerial overconfidence exacerbates earnings management because overconfidence sends the manager ``down the slippery slope to misreporting". In a principal-agent model with moral hazard, I show that overconfidence only increases the manager's...
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We examine whether accounting quality is associated with efficient investments in labor. Consistent with high quality … accounting mitigating market frictions that lead to sub-optimal levels of investment, we find evidence that abnormal net hiring … (measured as the absolute deviation from net hiring predicted by economic fundamentals) is negatively associated with accounting …
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