Der Countdown für die Umstellung auf IAS/IFRS-Rechnungslegung läuft! Höchste Zeit, sich auf die neuen Bilanzierungsprobleme wie Goodwillbilanzierung, Pensionsverpflichtungen, Leasing und aktienkursorientierte Entlohnung vorzubereiten. Die Autoren durchleuchten die IASB-Normen genauso wie die...

This study examines the nature of outliers in archival accounting research and evaluates the merits and limitations of robust estimators in identifying and downweighing their influence. Using simulated and actual data samples, we demonstrate how outliers can result from the data generating...

Using proprietary market microstructure data of Milan Stock Exchange and strategic plan presentations of Italian firms as disclosure events we explore the distributional effects of voluntary disclosure. We document systematic trading patterns around our disclosure events that on average generate...

We review the academic literature on the use of financial reporting information by capital providers. We classify our findings by investor type and by information objective. While most capital providers use accounting information, our survey indicates that they do so in a variety of ways with...

This paper demonstrates that measures of stock price synchronicity based on market model R2s are predictably biased downwards as a result of stock illiquidity, and that previously-employed remedies to correct market model betas for measurement bias do not fix R2. Using a large international...