Kohlbeck, Mark; Mayhew, Brian W. - In: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 29 (2010) 2, pp. 115-137
We examine the stock market's valuation of firms that disclose related party (RP) transactions compared to those that do not. We examine market values just prior to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) ban on RP loans to evaluate the market's perception of firms with RP transactions prior to regulatory...