This study explains the challenges associated with the Heckman (1979) procedure to control for selection bias, assesses the quality of its application in accounting research, and offers guidance for better implementation of selection models. A survey of 75 recent accounting articles in leading...

Using a sample of firms experiencing exogenous CEO departures, we investigate whether firms with overconfident CEOs avoid more tax. We find robust evidence of a positive relation between proxies for corporate tax avoidance and CEO overconfidence. Because our empirical tests use a panel of...

We provide evidence that increased reporting frequency enhances the extent to which stock prices guide managers' investment decisions. Using a generalized difference-in-differences research design, we find the sensitivity of investment to stock price increased for Mandatory Adopters following an...

Unusually high accounting accruals are observable to sophisticated investors, who must then decide whether the accruals represent managerial manipulation of reported earnings or an indication of future firm performance. We hypothesise that both cash and stock dividends contain information useful...

Theory suggests that, under certain assumptions, corporate distributions should reduce market value on a one-to-one basis. This result is sometimes known as dividend displacement. Nonetheless, dividend displacement tends to be rejected by empirical tests for total dividends and regular...