This paper investigates financial analysts' predictive power of future performance and earnings quality, based on their selective coverage of firms that have recently cross-listed into the U.S. This setting is useful for examining these questions because, following cross-listing, firms often...

Is choice of incorporation state associated with differences in firms' fundamental attributes? We show that firms incorporated in Delaware are larger, younger, less profitable, more risky, spend more in Ramp;D, and have larger Tobin's Q than non-Delaware U.S. firms. Furthermore, we show that,...

Assuming the clean surplus relation, the Edwards-Bell-Ohlson residual income valuation (RIV) model expresses market value of equity as the sum of the book value of equity and the expected discounted future residual incomes. Without assuming the clean surplus relation, Ohlson and Juettner-Nauroth...

Prior to 1984, Delaware judges relied exclusively on the Delaware Block method - an appraisal formula based on trailing earnings and liquidation value - to price shares in shareholder litigation. In 1984, the Delaware Supreme Court changed the law to permit its judges to use any valuation method...