The fixed-effects specification is often used in panel datasets as a way of dealing with correlated omitted variables. A review of recent accounting publications reveals that while researchers are generally aware of the need to include fixed-effects in empirical models when using panel datasets...

Part A – Accounting and Financial Reporting -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Accounting for Inter-Corporate Investments -- Chapter 2: Main Issues in Purchase Accounting -- Chapter 3: More Issues in Purchase Accounting -- Chapter 4: Spin-Offs and Equity Carve-Outs -- Chapter 5: Special Purpose...

We suggest that the failure of investors to distinguish between an earnings component's autocorrelation coefficient (unconditional persistence) and the marginal contribution of that component's persistence to the persistence of earnings (conditional persistence) provides a partial explanation to...