This paper investigates the relationship between fair value accounting and the behavior adjustment of commercial banks which is aimed at catering to the regulatory requirements by using a dataset from Chinese listed commercial banks from 2007-2011.The empirical results show that (1) The...

In this study, we examine the performance of two different measures of 'other information' found in the accounting literature. One is based upon last year's valuation error, once the impact of accounting variables on value is controlled for. The other is based upon using one-year-ahead consensus...

This paper proposes a new framework to analyze both the profitability and stock returns of banks by decomposing a bank's return on equity (ROE) in its components. The decomposition follows a simple model of a bank, and is directly related to specific management decisions. We validate the...

The English version of this article is available at: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214674" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214674.En estas diapositivas se discute la dificultad práctica y conceptual de la búsqueda de una estructura óptima de capital EOC. Se propone un enfoque normativo que llamamos...

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214703" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2214703.In these slides we discuss the practical and conceptual difficulty of finding an Optimal Capital Structure. We propose a normative approach we call Implicit...

This study investigates the hitherto unexplored questions of whether and how a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting (ICW) and its disclosure influence the occurrence of extreme negative outliers in stock return distributions, which we refer to as stock price crash risk....

This paper compares and contrasts two accounting information systems, the aggregate earnings system and the disaggregated cash flow/accrual system, examining their relative performance in stock valuation and in forecasting of earnings. It finds, in general, that the forecasts of earnings and...

This study investigates whether the voluntary disclosure of management earnings forecasts influences investors' assessment of firm risk and firm value. We find a significant negative relationship between the issuance of management earnings forecasts and a variety of measures of firm risk...

Implied cost of capital has been a research method to measure ex-ante market risk premia using analysts' forecasts and observable share prices. Despite its theoretical appeal, commonly used firm level as well as portfolio level implied cost of capital methods reveal differing empirical results....

The development of the residual income model (RIM) has potential implications for the empirical researchers as the model specifies relationship between earnings and book values as proxies for equity values and accounting variables. Although researchers have supported RIM as an alternative to the...