I investigate the determinants and economic consequences associated with firms financial reporting choices. Recognizing the endogeneity associated with these choices, Ifind evidence of a positive association between investors demands for firm-specificinformation and financial reporting quality....

We examine earnings management behavior around SEOs, focusing on both real activities and accrual-based manipulation, and how this behavior varies over time and cross-sectionally. Although research has addressed the issues of earnings management around SEOs and earnings management via real...

Bradshaw, Richardson, and Sloan (BRS) find a negative relation between their comprehensive measure of corporate financing activities and future stock returns and future profitability. Noticing that accounting accruals are increases in net operatingassets on a company s balance sheet, we question...

We examine earnings management behavior around SEOs, focusing on both realactivities and accrual-based manipulation, and how this behavior varies over time andcross-sectionally. Although research has addressed the issues of earnings managementaround SEOs and earnings management via real...

Abarbanell and Lehavy provide evidence that analysts' forecast errors are not normally distributed exhibiting a high occurrence of extreme negative forecast errors (left-tail asymmetry) and a high occurrence of small positive forecast errors (middle asymmetry). This is important for researchers...

I investigate the determinants and economic consequences associated with financialreporting quality. I find evidence of a positive association between investors demands for firm-specific information and financial reporting quality. In addition, the evidence suggests that higher proprietary costs...

We document that accrual-based earnings management increased steadily from 1987 untilthe passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002, followed by a significant declineafter the passage of SOX. Conversely, the level of real earnings management activitiesdeclined prior to SOX and increased...

We document that earnings announcement-day premia persist beyond the sample period of earlier studies, over different disclosure environments and remain robust to the refinement of using the expected announcement day rather than the actual announcementday. A portfolio of announcing firms yields...