This study investigates whether and how financial constraints on firms affect the risk of their stock prices crashing. We find strong evidence that financial constraints increase future stock price crash risk. This finding is robust to using a dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM)...

We investigate whether voluntary disclosures of product and business expansion plans affect analyst coverage and forecasts. We find that the level of analyst coverage is positively associated with the incidence of disclosures of product and business expansion plans. We also find that product and...

Purpose- We investigate how executive pay and its gap with employee pay influence the performance of Thailand tourism listed companies.Design/methodology/approach- We manually collect data on the executives’ and employees’ remunerations for Thailand tourism listed companies and use the data...

Corporate tax avoidance is likely to be associated with a high level of earnings management and with high financial opacity in the time-series. On this basis, we hypothesize that analyst coverage is negatively associated with corporate tax avoidance. Our results confirm this conjecture, and are...

It is well documented that firms tend to manipulate earnings before IPO (initial public offerings) and SEO (seasoned equity offerings). This study contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on whether and how fiscal support in the form of preferential tax treatment and...

This study investigates the effect of CEO inside debt holdings on financial reporting quality. I find that higher CEO inside debt holdings are associated with lower abnormal accruals, higher accruals quality, a lower likelihood of an earnings misstatement, and a lower incidence of earnings...