This study investigates the endogenous relationship between abnormal insider trading and accrual abuse, and explores whether corporate governance affects this relationship. Our results suggest that insiders take advantage of private information on abnormal accruals to time their trading and...

Sovereign credit rating changes have an influence on real private investment of re-rated countries. We find significant increases in private investment growth following upgrades in sovereign ratings. These increases, however, are transitory. We also find significant, temporary declines in...

This study examines how the investment horizon of the institutional shareholders of a firm affects the stock performance of private equity placements. The results show that firms with long-term institutional investors receive significantly positive abnormal returns around the offering...

Results of research on whether changes in earnings can predict future stock returns are inconclusive. We add to this debate by using long-term data from 1871 to 2004 to examine the predictive power of changes in earnings in periods of intrinsic bubbles and in periods absent intrinsic bubbles....

Private equity placement data allow us to determine whether sophisticated investors can uncover the true value of firms. This can be done by defining sophisticated investors as those who meet the stringent participation requirements of the private equity market. Our results show private equity...

This article investigates how the investment horizon of a firm's institutional shareholders affects the outcome of stock repurchase. Our results show that repurchasing firms with long-term institutional investors experience significantly positive abnormal returns around the repurchasing...

The tradable sector has a lower consumption-output comovement than that in the nontradable sector. An artificial autarky generates identical comovements. Once the economy is open, however, the comovement in the nontradable sector becomes too low. The paper demonstrates that the intensity of...

In the past decade, the Chinese government was increasingly relying on revenues from land sales to finance the public spending. This paper examines the impacts of land financing on business cycle fluctuations in China in an estimated DSGE model. The simulation results indicate that the overall...

In this paper, a generalized recurrent neural network is proposed for solving ϵ-insensitive support vector regression (ϵ-ISVR). The ϵ-ISVR is first formulated as a convex non-smooth programming problem, and then a generalize recurrent neural network with lower model complexity is designed for...

The countercyclical trade balance ratio is one of the key stylized facts for open economies. The magnitude differs from country to country. Specifically, the trade balance ratio is more negatively correlated with output in emerging economies than in developed economies, suggesting that the trade...