Fair value estimates of debt and equity securities play an increasingly important role in the economy. For example, International Financial Reporting Standards require companies to report many of their investments at fair value on the balance sheet or to use fair values in goodwill impairment...

This study examines the effect of firm-level transparency on liquidity and trading in a multi-market setting, using the market for American Depository Receipts (ADR) as an example. Theory predicts competing effects of transparency on liquidity differences between stocks trading domestically and...

This study examines whether accruals models' performance, in terms of predictive accuracy and power to detect earnings management, varies across strongly heterogeneous samples, such as different countries. We analyze the performance of two accruals estimation models, i.e., the Modified Jones...