We examine whether the regulatory changes required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) and Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. (FIN) 48 reduced the propensity for earnings management through the reserve for income taxes. Given prior evidence that firms use this reserve to...

We examine how informed trading activities affect the market reaction to accounting restatements. We find significantly less negative reactions to accounting estatements when managers are net purchasers of stock before the restatement, and significantly more negative market reactions when...