Marciukaityte, Dalia; Szewczyk, Samuel H. - In: Review of Behavioral Finance 3 (2011) November, pp. 91-114
managerial manipulation or managerial overoptimism. Insider trading patterns and press releases around equity and debt financing … firms, and using alternative measures of discretionary accruals. These findings support the hypothesis that managerial … overoptimism distorts financial statements of firms obtaining external financing. …