This study examines managerial ethics with regard to earnings reporting and insider trading. Managers of firms with optimistic forecasts or firms with higher Street earnings versus GAAP earnings are considered candidates to be misleading investors. Two hypotheses are examined: 1) that these...

Conrail, nationalized in 1976 and privatized in 1987, was the most significant nationalization and privatization by the US government in recent years. It was created from six bankrupt railroads under the pressure of interest groups, formed by customers, existing claimants, employees and related...

Conrail, nationalized in 1976 and privatized in 1987, was the most significant nationalization and privatization by the US government in recent years. It provides a specific example to examine the financial impacts of politics. We show that at key points in the nationalized and privatized time...

Conrail, nationalised in 1976 and privatised in 1987, was the most significant nationalisation and privatisation by the US government in recent years. It was created from six bankrupt railroads under the pressure of interest groups, formed by customers, existing claimants, employees and related...

This study documents the amount of time it takes for Initial Public Offerings (POs) to make the transition from underperformance to meeting or exceeding the return for firms of similar size. The study looks at yearly holding period lengths of 1 to 10 years. The results of this study show that if...

We explore the power of behavioral economic insights to influence the level of households' recycling and Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) by examining the effectiveness of a green nudge, the adoption of a Clear Bag Policy that was implemented in 2015 in a mid-size urban municipality in Canada. Using...