Fair value estimates of debt and equity securities play an increasingly important role in the economy. For example, International Financial Reporting Standards require companies to report many of their investments at fair value on the balance sheet or to use fair values in goodwill impairment...

This report consists of two parts. The first part is a research note describing a comprehensive analysis of the realized return differential between small and large firms (i.e., the "size premium") in a sample of European stocks during the period between 1990 and 2018. This study establishes...

This study examines the effect of firm-level transparency on liquidity and trading in a multi-market setting, using the market for American Depository Receipts (ADR) as an example. Theory predicts competing effects of transparency on liquidity differences between stocks trading domestically and...

This study examines whether accruals models' performance, in terms of predictive accuracy and power to detect earnings management, varies across strongly heterogeneous samples, such as different countries. We analyze the performance of two accruals estimation models, i.e., the Modified Jones...

This study investigates the joint effects of company identification and locus of attribution on investors’ judgments of management credibility. We study these effects in the context of an adverse event disclosure. Building on social identity theory, we predict that investors identify with the...

This study examines whether PCAOB inspection reports succeed in providing a meaningful signal of audit quality. We find a statistically and economically significant market response to the issuances of 224 first-round and 134 second-round inspection reports between January 2005 and March 2010,...