In this study, we document that independent corporate boards of Hong Kong firms provide effective monitoring of earnings management, which suggests that despite differences in institutional environments, corporate board independence is important to ensure high-quality financial reporting. The...

In this paper, we provide evidence that the quality of short-term analyst forecasts improved but the quality of long-term analyst forecasts deteriorated after the implementation of Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD). More specifically, our results show that the precision of the idiosyncratic...