This study attempts to add to the small body of existing literature relating the CEO characteristics to earnings management. Our research is carried out on 153 French listed companies over the year 2008. Using discretionary accruals as proxy for earnings management, we find a significant...

The primary objective of this paper is to examine the relationships between voluntary earning disclosures made by French-listed firms and financial analysts' behavior. This paper focuses on voluntary earnings disclosures' contribution in explaining analysts' coverage and their earnings forecasts...

This paper studies market liquidity and stock prices components of information asymmetry around non-mandated earnings announcements by focusing on effective bid-ask spreads and trading volumes. Using event study methodology for 309 voluntary earnings announcements from 1998 to 2001, we found...

The primary objective of this paper is to study the relationship between earning voluntary disclosures made by French firms managers and a set of corporate governance combined attributes. Corporate governance attributes examined in this study include ownership structure, institutional investors...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance under the enabling and voluntary institutional settings in France. We use a Quantile difference-in-differences and dose-response function estimations. The findings show that the...