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This paper investigates whether some initial public offering (IPO) managers report informative (as opposed to opportunistic) income-increasing accruals and the extent to which market participants differentially price informative accruals. I find significantly more persistent income-increasing...
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We show that firms with executive bonuses that qualify for deduction under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) were less likely to expense stock option compensation (SOC) in 2002. Additionally, the more likely it is that a qualified firm will incur re-contracting costs, the less likely it is...
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While it is well-established that diversifying acquisitions by large cash-rich firms destroy shareholder wealth, we document positive abnormal returns to such acquisitions in the tobacco industry. We show these abnormal returns are associated with proxies for lower expected expropriation costs....
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This study contributes to the body of research that examines the valuation of initial public offers (IPOs). The aim of this study is to assess the relative predictive ability of residual income valuation against the popular alternative of comparable firm valuation for predicting the offer prices...
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This paper examines the intra-day returns to initial public offerings on the first day of trade from an information arrival perspective. We examine underpricing as reflected in the first and subsequent trades on the first day of listing. We find that underpricing is primarily reflected in the...
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We examine analysts' implied expected rates of return for recent IPO firms relative to more seasoned firms. We document that analysts have relatively more optimistic expectations about recent IPO firms relative to seasoned firms, and these optimistic expectations persist, on average, for four...
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I examine the effect of arbitrage risk on the alignment between stock prices and accounting fundamentals, where arbitrage risk is measured as the lack of close substitutes that can be used as a hedge. I find evidence consistent with the disparity between value and price being positively...
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