's takeover of the Italian company Nouvo Pignone as an instance. The systems are an essential element in the expansionary …

financial reports, i.e., in the misreporting period. Drawing upon finance theory that recognizes banks' superior information …

Exploiting the staggered adoption of country-level takeover laws that increased takeover threats, this paper examines …-in-difference design, I find that the enactment of laws designed to promote takeover activity is associated with greater earnings …, and price impact of trades) following takeover regulation. Impact on earnings management is most pronounced for managers …

. Using a sample of private equity takeovers, we show that multiple measures of myopia increase the likelihood of takeover by … myopia measures, nor do takeovers by public firms. We further show that post-takeover, firms exhibit significantly less … sufficiently large to warrant a takeover by private equity and contributes to the shrinking number of publicly traded firms …