This paper provides a theory of earnings quality metrics, explaining what they capture and how they are related with each other. We develop a simple economy in which a manager has market price, earnings, and smoothing incentives and can bias earnings reports. This economy provides a framework...

The current paper studies the determinants of R&D strategy and analyzes the effects of R&D decentralization on financial performance and earnings management. We use a sample of 160 U.S. Multinational companies (MNCs) between 2001 and 2006. Our results provide evidence that MNCs decentralize...

We use the largest cross-country sample of reported share transactions by corporate insiders to date to establish that insiders in the majority of European countries do not make statistically significant abnormal trading profits. This finding stands in contrast to the earlier evidence from the...

This study reports the results of a longitudinal study of the association between selected bank funds measures and relative profitability, with emphasis on high-performance banks. Bank funds management is an increasingly major component of bank financial management. Bank funds management has...