Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to add to the understanding of the monitoring role of multiple large shareholders (MLS) by examining their impact on the informativeness of firms' earnings. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses regression models that relate earnings to stock...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to add to the understanding of the monitoring role of multiple large shareholders (MLS) by examining their impact on the informativeness of firms' earnings. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses regression models that relate earnings to stock...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to add to our understanding of the monitoring role of multiple large shareholders by examining their impact on the informativeness of firms' earnings. Design/methodology/approach - We use regression models that relate earnings to stock returns for a sample...

[fre] Dans un contexte de sélection contraire, il est étudié, à partir d’un protocole expérimental, l’intensité et l'efficacité d’une politique de contrôle comme instrument de filtrage dans la relation de financement de long terme entre un investisseur (Principal) et un...

This paper examines a financier's optimal monitoring intensity in a multi-period financing relationship. We identify conditions under which the financier should sometimes misidentify the quality of an entrepreneur. Such an imperfect evaluation technology affects action choices by bad...

This paper proposes a model to analyze the dynamic relations between incentive contracts and analysts' effort in providing accurate research when both ethical and reputational concerns matter. First, we show that reputation picks up ability and thus serves as a sorting device: when analysts have...

Cet article propose un modèle de choix entrepeneurial mettant en évidence une relation non monotone entre le progrès technique et la sélection des entrepreneurs sur leurs capacités individuelles. Les choix de création d'entreprises sont examinés dans un modèle à deux périodes avec...