We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less likely to switch insurer than low-risk consumers. First, we find that insurers still have an incentive to select even if risk adjustment perfectly corrects for cost differences...

Research Question - Did Greek listed firms engage in earnings management practices during the initial phase of the 2010's economic crisis? Motivation - Impact of structural attributes of a country along with firms' characteristics on economic entities' accounting policy decisions. Idea - Firms'...

We study how firms adjust their financial positions around the times when they undertake lumpy adjustments in capital or employment. Using U.S. firm level data, we document systematic patterns of cash and debt financing around lumpy adjustment, remarkably similar across capital and employment....