Ḥamdani, Asaf; Mugerman, Yevgeny; Rooz, Ruth; … - 2022
increased their net worth by raising more equity. We also find, however, that firms changed their accounting practices, as … reflected by an increase in long-term discretionary accruals and a decrease in accounting conservatism. As a result of these … accounting changes, we document a decline in the informativeness of the treated firms’ financial reports. We conclude that the …