In this paper, we investigate whether the use of accounting conservatism in India decreases IPO underpricing, which is … implication of accounting conservatism for IPOs. Based on a regression analysis of 527 firms that went public through IPOs of "A … conservatism and under-pricing is robust to alternative measures of accounting conservatism, mean regressions, sample exclusions …

demand for accounting conservatism when suppliers or customers have bargaining advantages over it that enable them to dictate … customers are associated with its accounting practices and also support the contracting explanation for accounting conservatism …

In this paper, we offer a new theory for the economic demand of accounting conservatism, which emphasizes the signaling … role of conservatism in a debt market with asymmetric information. In our model, accounting conservatism serves as a signal … analytically derive four basic properties of accounting conservatism, based on Basu's (1997) asymmetric timeliness of earnings …