Responding to the financial crisis of 2008, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) to “provide for financial regulatory reform” and to “protect consumers and investors[.]” Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Act (“Section 951”)...

This article proposes a practical method to accomplish a previously elusive task: measuring human capital with monetary values on the statement of financial position, such as the balance sheet.Human capital is shown to comply with the definition of a right-of-use asset, as defined in the IASB...

The optimal contracts in portfolio delegation under general preferences are characterized when the underlying state variable is not contractible, and the principal must rely on the final returns of portfolios to design the compensation schemes for the fund manager. We show that the optimal...

Many investors purchase open-end mutual funds through intermediaries, paying brokers and financial advisors for fund distribution and advice via alternative sale charge fee structures. We argue that the fee structure choice reveals valuable information about investors horizon. That allows...

We develop a measurement-error framework for assessing the quality of relative-performance metrics designed to filter out the systematic component of performance, and analyze relative total shareholder return (rTSR)-the predominant metric market participants use to isolate managers'...

This study investigates whether audit market competition influences the risk profile of audit offices' client portfolios and whether an audit office's client risk profile affects the association between audit market competition and audit quality. Economic theory suggests that market competition...

We examine the Big Four public client portfolios to determine if there appears to be homogeneity of business risk — an overall firm risk of loss arising from accepted clients — across the four accounting firms' public company portfolios. If a varying risk profile exists among the firms, then...

We offer evidence that the use of Relative Performance Evaluation (RPE) in CEOs' incentive contracts influences the effect of risk-taking incentives on both the magnitude and composition of firm risk. We find that when the incentive design lacks RPE features, the incentive portfolio vega...

We offer evidence that the use of Relative Performance Evaluation (RPE) in CEOs' incentive contracts influences the effect of risk-taking incentives on both the magnitude and composition of firm risk. We find that when the incentive design lacks RPE features, the incentive portfolio vega...

I study the consequences of a random exposure to common risk for the purpose of relative performance evaluation (RPE) and find that it significantly affects the usefulness and the empirical measurement of RPE. According to my analysis, the magnitude of the exposure risk not only determines how...