This paper presents evidence of anomalies in internet firms' stock returns surrounding their quarterly earnings announcements. There is a general runup in prices in the days prior to the earnings announcements, followed by a price reversal lasting for several days. The magnitude of the...

SFAS 109, Accounting for income taxes, was criticized for allowing firms to set arbitrarily high valuation allowances against deferred tax assets at adoption as quot;hidden reservesquot; that firms could use in future periods to manage earnings. Consistent with these claims, bank managers make...

Companies' earnings conference calls are perceived to be venues for sell‐side equity analysts to ask management questions. In this study, we examine another important conference call participant — the buy‐side analyst — that has been under-explored in the literature due to data...

Prior literature suggests changes in financial reporting improve investment decisions and forwards two non-exclusive mechanisms. First, financial reporting quality (FRQ) can lead to increased investment efficiency by lowering external information asymmetry. Second, changes in financial reporting...

From a sample of 910 U.S. firms over the period 1977 1996, we find that structure of the empirical model has significant impacts on resulting estimates of exchange rate exposures from equity returns. While lengthening the return horizon has minimal impact on exposure estimates, the inclusion of...

We show that both return measurement horizon and model specification have noticeable impacts on estimates of exposure from equity prices for U.S. firms. While increases in the return horizon leads to increases in the precision of the estimates, this effect is less significant than the impact of...

The extant literature offers extensive support for the significant role played by institutions in financial markets, but implicit regulation and monitoring have yet to be examined. This study fills this void in the literature by employing unique Chinese datasets to explore the implicit...

We investigate the relation between societal trust and managers' decisions to voluntarily issue earnings forecasts. We reason that managers are more (less) likely to issue earnings forecasts in high-trust (low-trust) countries because these voluntary disclosures are viewed by investors as a...