Download or read book Three Essays on Real Earnings Management written by Zhaohui Xu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Earnings Management Using Real Business Operations written by Lingxiang Li and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Earnings Management written by Kōstas Pappas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Real Earnings Management written by Wenxia Ge and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays on Real Earnings Management written by Craig J. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firms are also affected by the earnings management incentives of their competitors. Results show that firms discount prices when more of their competitors face earnings management incentives.
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Markets The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives Options Trading and Firm Innovation written by Iván Blanco and published by Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do financial derivatives enhance or impede innovation? We aim to answer this question by examining the relationship between equity options markets and standard measures of firm innovation. Our baseline results show that firms with more options trading activity generate more patents and patent citations per dollar of R&D invested. We then investigate how more active options markets affect firms' innovation strategy. Our results suggest that firms with greater trading activity pursue a more creative, diverse and risky innovation strategy. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and show that options appear to mitigate managerial career concerns that would induce managers to take actions that boost short-term performance measures. Finally, using several econometric specifications that try to account for the potential endogeneity of options trading, we argue that the positive effect of options trading on firm innovation is causal.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Dynamics of Earning Management written by Xiao Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays of Firm s Fundamentals and Asset Pricing written by Wei-Kang Shih and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my dissertation research, I have three essays discussing the firm's fundamentals and their asset pricing implications. In the first essay entitled "Alternative Equity Valuation Models", we use simultaneous equations estimation and combined forecasting methods to examine future stock prices forecast ability of Ohlson (1995) Model, Feltham and Ohlson (1995) Model, and Warren and Shelton (1971) Model. We also investigate whether comprehensive earnings can provide incremental price-relevant information beyond net income. Overall, we find that the simultaneous equations estimation procedure can produce more accurate future stock price forecasts than the traditional single equation estimation method, and combined forecast method can further reduce the prediction errors by using combination of individual forecasts. We also find supporting evidence that investors can use comprehensive earnings to more accurately forecast future stock prices in these valuation models. My second essay entitled "Technical, Fundamental, and Combined Information for Separating Winners from Losers" jointly use fundamental and technical information to improve the technical momentum strategy. We examine how fundamental accounting information can be used to supplement the technical information, such as past returns and past trading volume data, to separate momentum winners from losers. More specifically, we propose a unified framework of incorporating fundamental indicators FSCORE (Piotroski, 2000) and GSCORE (Mohanram, 2005) into the technical momentum strategy. Our empirical results suggest that the combined momentum strategy outperforms technical momentum strategy for both growth and value stocks. My third essay entitled "The Economic Consequences of Real Earnings Management" examines how real activities based earnings management affect firm's payout and investment decisions. Our paper focuses on real earnings management in a general equilibrium production (GEP) economy setting, and studies the economic implications of this phenomenon on the economy. To formalize the notion of real earnings management, we propose that risk-averse managers "manage" earnings through investment-payout decisions that are conditioned by their history and habits. In addition, we permit habits to change randomly which introduces another source of risk. We explicitly solve for the endogenous asset prices and interest rate, and show how this additional risk from managerial habits is priced in the production economy.
Download or read book Earnings Management written by Joshua Ronen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?
Download or read book The Association Between Going Concern Audit Opinion Corporate Governance and Real Earnings Management written by Musab Ababneh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay examines the association between going concern audit opinions and real earnings management. The second essay examines the association between corporate governance and real earnings management. The third essay investigates the effect of effective corporate governance on going concern firms' survival rate. The results for the first essay indicate that firms with going concern audit opinions report abnormally low cash flow from operations and abnormally high production costs. The findings for the second essay show that more frequent board meetings and the presence of at least one female director on the audit committee constrain real earnings management at going concern firms. The third essay results show that larger audit committee size improves the survival rate of going concern firms.
Download or read book Essays on Earnings Management written by Nikolaj Kirkeby Niebuhr and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Quality of Earnings written by Anke Lenk and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Three Essays on the Monitoring Role of Financial Analysts written by Zhongwei Huang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters that present three standalone essays on the monitoring role of financial analysts. Chapter 1 investigates the monitoring role of financial analysts in the financial reporting process by examining the informativeness and monitoring effect of their written comments on earnings quality. I find that these comments have incremental predictability with respect to future accounting restatements, and convey information to investors beyond that in the earnings forecasts, stock ratings, price targets, and other qualitative text in analyst reports. Further analyses suggest that the market's reaction to these comments is primarily driven by negative comments and comments written with certainty. In addition, controlling for accrual reversals, I find that firms significantly reduce the level of accruals-based earnings management after receiving negative comments, and this reduction is not accompanied by an increase in real activities management. Overall, the first chapter provides direct evidence on analysts' monitoring role in financial reporting. Chapter 2 examines whether and how analysts' monitoring of the financial reporting process alleviates a well-known agency problem in which a manager inflates her compensation by manipulating earnings. I argue that analysts' monitoring reduces a manager's ability to conceal earnings management from directors, thus facilitating directors' adjustment of executive compensation in the presence of earnings management. Consistent with this argument, I find that earnings carry a lower weight in the determination of CEO compensation in firms that are criticized by analysts regarding earnings quality, but only when directors are likely to be aware of the critical analyst reports. The main findings are robust to matching on performance and controlling for firm-fixed effects and are not driven by other text in the analyst reports. Additional analyses suggest that the weight placed on earnings decreases as the actual accruals deviate from analysts' accruals forecasts. Overall, the second chapter emphasizes analysts' monitoring role in alleviating managerial rent extraction in executive compensation. Chapter 3 provides evidence on the impact of recent analyst independence reforms (the National Association of Securities Dealers [NASD] Rule 2711 and the companion New York Stock Exchange [NYSE] Rule 472 Amendment, and the Global Settlement) on analysts' monitoring role in the financial reporting process. The NASD Rule 2711 requires brokerage firms to structurally separate investment banking from equity research; meanwhile, the Global Settlement mandates the participating banks to fund independent research firms to the amount of 432.5 million dollars from 2004 to 2009. I find evidence consistent with an increase in analysts' monitoring effectiveness following the reforms. Further analyses suggest that this increase is primarily driven by the Global Settlement, rather than by the adoption of NASD Rule 2711. The evidence is robust to a difference-in-difference specification with Canadian firms as the control group. Moreover, I document a reversal of the increase in monitoring effectiveness following the end of the Global Settlement's five-year funding. Overall, the third chapter highlights the interaction between the monitoring role of financial analysts and the regulatory environment.
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Download or read book Two essays on earnings management and capital markets written by Arturo Rodriguez Perales and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
