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Book Synopsis Th Effect of Disclosure Quality on Stock Liquidity and Earnings Management by : Yuting Wang
Download or read book Th Effect of Disclosure Quality on Stock Liquidity and Earnings Management written by Yuting Wang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis provides evidence on the importance of disclosure quality on stock market and firm corporate governance. It investigates the effect of disclosure quality on stock liquidity and earnings management for Chinese firms listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. My analysis is conducted in two parts. The first part investigates the relationship between disclosure quality and stock liquidity. The results from various proxies for market liquidity suggest that higher disclosure quality leads to improved stock liquidity with reduced information asymmetry. Further, as the disclosure rating improves, the ability for information disclosure to mitigate information asymmetry and stimulate market liquidity becomes stronger. The second part of the thesis examines the effect of disclosure quality on listed firms’ earnings management. I find that a higher level of disclosure quality is associated with less earnings management and lower information asymmetry. However, the results do not provide any significant evidence on the relationship between the change in disclosure quality and the change in the inclination to engage in earnings management. This indicates that the ratio of earnings management level in adjacent fiscal years cannot capture the change in earnings management, and it further confirms that accruals reversion among accounting periods should be considered when constructing models for changes in earnings management.
Book Synopsis Disclosure Quality and Earnings Management by : Jian Zhou
Download or read book Disclosure Quality and Earnings Management written by Jian Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between disclosure quality and earnings management. Corporate disclosure and earnings management are both subject to managers' discretion; therefore, managers are likely to consider their interaction when exercising managerial discretion. This study employs a simultaneous equations model to test the hypothesis that disclosure quality and earnings management are negatively related. It uses ratings published by the Association for Investment Management and Research to measure corporate disclosure, and discretionary accruals from the modified Jones model to measure earnings management. Consistent with theoretical predictions, the empirical analysis indicates that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between corporate disclosure and earnings management. Firms that disclose less tend to engage more in earnings management and vice versa. This result holds even after controlling for the effects of potentially confounding variables, and for all three components of corporate disclosure: annual disclosure, quarterly disclosure, and investor relations disclosure. By documenting a consistent negative relationship between corporate disclosure and earnings management, the study provides evidence on how management uses the flexibility afforded it under current minimum disclosure requirements to exercise discretion in reporting earnings. This has implications for the interpretation of and information conveyed by reported accounting earnings. It also provides support for the SEC's approach to attenuating earnings management by requiring more informative corporate disclosure.
Book Synopsis The Real Effects of Stock Market Liquidity by : Ying Xia
Download or read book The Real Effects of Stock Market Liquidity written by Ying Xia and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Real Effects of Stock Market Liquidity" by Ying, Xia, 夏颖, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: One important line of literature in finance studies the real effects of stock market on the economy. Following this area of research, I investigate whether stock market liquidity can affect firm's real economic activities. This thesis consists of two empirical studies about the effects of stock market liquidity on firm's default risk and manager's earnings manipulation. The first chapter examines the impact of stock liquidity on firm default risk. Default occurs when a firm's cash flows are insufficient to cover its debt service costs and principal payments. I show that firms with more liquid stocks have lower default risk. Using the Securities and Exchange Commission's decimalization regulation as a shock to stock market liquidity, I establish that enhanced stock liquidity causally decreases default risk. Then I find two mechanisms through which liquidity reduces firm default risk: through improving stock price informational efficiency, and facilitating corporate governance by blockholders. Of the two mechanisms, informational efficiency channel has higher explanatory power than the corporate governance channel. The second chapter studies the relationship between stock market liquidity and earnings management. Earning management occurs when managers exercise their discretions over the choices of accounting methods or operational activities with the objective to influence the reported earnings. Using a sample of U.S. public firms over the time period from 1993 to 2012, I find that firms with more liquid stocks have lower level of both real and accrual-based earnings management. The result is robust to the use of various measures of liquidity. I address the endogeneity problem by using instrumental variable approach and a source of exogenous shocks to stock liquidity, i.e. Decimalization regulation. These methods provide evidence of a causal effect of liquidity on earnings management. I further find that liquidity curbs earnings management by mitigating the information asymmetry between managers and shareholder and facilitating governance by large institutional investors. Subjects: Liquidity (Economics) Stock exchanges
Book Synopsis Earnings Quality by : Jennifer Francis
Download or read book Earnings Quality written by Jennifer Francis and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review lays out a research perspective on earnings quality. We provide an overview of alternative definitions and measures of earnings quality and a discussion of research design choices encountered in earnings quality research. Throughout, we focus on a capital markets setting, as opposed, for example, to a contracting or stewardship setting. Our reason for this choice stems from the view that the capital market uses of accounting information are fundamental, in the sense of providing a basis for other uses, such as stewardship. Because resource allocations are ex ante decisions while contracting/stewardship assessments are ex post evaluations of outcomes, evidence on whether, how and to what degree earnings quality influences capital market resource allocation decisions is fundamental to understanding why and how accounting matters to investors and others, including those charged with stewardship responsibilities. Demonstrating a link between earnings quality and, for example, the costs of equity and debt capital implies a basic economic role in capital allocation decisions for accounting information; this role has only recently been documented in the accounting literature. We focus on how the precision of financial information in capturing one or more underlying valuation-relevant constructs affects the assessment and use of that information by capital market participants. We emphasize that the choice of constructs to be measured is typically contextual. Our main focus is on the precision of earnings, which we view as a summary indicator of the overall quality of financial reporting. Our intent in discussing research that evaluates the capital market effects of earnings quality is both to stimulate further research in this area and to encourage research on related topics, including, for example, the role of earnings quality in contracting and stewardship.
Book Synopsis China's Economic Transformation by : Gregory C. Chow
Download or read book China's Economic Transformation written by Gregory C. Chow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a fully-revised and updated third edition, this established textbook provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the historical, institutional, and theoretical factors that have contributed to China’s economic success. Includes coverage of China’s foreign investments, trade with regional partners, Chinese human capital, and bureaucratic economic institutions Covers a diverse set of important issues, including environmental restraints, income distribution, rural poverty, the education system, healthcare, exchange rate policies, monetary policies, and financial regulation Accessibly written and intelligently organized to offer a straightforward guide to China’s economic evolution Written by a lauded economist, researcher, and advisor to government officials in mainland China and Taiwan
Book Synopsis Corporate Governance, Disclosure and Market Liquidity by : Ariadna Dumitrescu
Download or read book Corporate Governance, Disclosure and Market Liquidity written by Ariadna Dumitrescu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates how corporate decisions such as the choice of corporate governance mechanisms or information disclosure by management, affect firm stock liquidity. The model studies the interaction between a firm's manager and its shareholders and shows that the quality of the firm's dividend report, a result of this interaction, affects information asymmetry in the financial market, and therefore, liquidity. Interestingly, the effect of disclosure quality on liquidity is non-monotonical. The model also highlights the complementarity between internal and external corporate governance mechanisms. Thus, the optimal level of disclosure required to maximize market liquidity increases in the quality of the firm's internal corporate governance mechanisms.
Book Synopsis Disclosure Quality Determinants and Consequences by : Nooraisah Katmun
Download or read book Disclosure Quality Determinants and Consequences written by Nooraisah Katmun and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of three main projects covering (i) the relationship between disclosure quality and earnings management and (ii) the relationship between corporate governance and disclosure quality. Disclosure quality is measures using the IR Magazine Award, the forward looking information in the annual report, and the analyst forecast accuracy. Match-paired samples comprised of the winners and non-winners of the IR Magazine Award during the years from 2005-2008 were employed in this study. Simultaneity bias in all projects was remedied by the use of a simultaneous system of equation, which was estimated using two-stage least square regression (2SLS). This study provides several interesting findings. With regard to the first project, disclosure quality and earnings management, it is shown that all disclosure quality proxies are consistently reported significant negative relationship with earnings management in the OLS regression. However, audit committee characteristics and board characteristics reveal insignificant relationship with earnings management, except audit committee meeting which reported positive association. Concerning the potential complementary and substitutive effect of internal governance and disclosure quality in deterring earnings management, result of the interaction terms revealed that there is a complementary relationship between audit committee quality and disclosure quality (measured using Investor Relation Magazine Award) in deterring earnings management. When disclosure quality and earnings management are treated as endogenous, this study reveals that there is a significant bi-directional relationship between disclosure quality and earnings management, highlighting that causality can run in both directions. This suggests that future research should control for disclosure quality factors when examining the impact of corporate governance and earnings management and that the potential simultaneity between disclosure quality and earnings management should be considered in future models. With respect to the second project, corporate governance and disclosure quality, this study reveals that audit committee effectiveness, board meeting and board independent are significantly positively related to disclosure quality (measured using IR Magazine Award and the number of forward looking items in the annual report). With regard to the potential complementary or substitutive effect between board and audit committee characteristics in improving firm disclosure quality, this study reveal that there is a substitutive effect between board quality and audit quality in enhancing disclosure quality (measured using analyst forecast accuracy). If disclosure quality and board independence are treated as endogenous, there is a significant positive bi-directional relationship between them when disclosure quality is measured using the number of forward looking items. However, there is a negative bi-directional relationship and an insignificant bi-directional relationship shown when disclosure quality is measured using analyst forecast accuracy and the IR Magazine Award respectively.
Book Synopsis Does Auditor Compensation Lower Market Liquidity? by : N. Asli Ascioglu
Download or read book Does Auditor Compensation Lower Market Liquidity? written by N. Asli Ascioglu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies have focused on accounting measures, such as earnings management and discretionary accruals, in evaluating the effects of auditor compensation on disclosure quality. In contrast, we investigate the impact of fees paid for audit and non-audit services on a market-based measure of disclosure quality and stock market liquidity. Based on a large sample of NYSE-traded Samp;P 1500 stocks, we find only weak evidence to support the argument that auditor compensation lowers disclosure quality and market liquidity. This finding is robust to alternative measures of bid-ask spreads and asymmetric information costs of trading. We do find, however, some evidence to suggest that corporate governance characteristics play a role in the relationship between auditor compensation and quoted liquidity. Our findings underscore the need to revisit the rationale behind restrictions on non-audit services imposed recently by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Book Synopsis The Effect of Disclosure Level on the Cost of Equity Capital and Stock Market Liquidity by : Christine Ann Botosan
Download or read book The Effect of Disclosure Level on the Cost of Equity Capital and Stock Market Liquidity written by Christine Ann Botosan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Earnings Management by : Joshua Ronen
Download or read book Earnings Management written by Joshua Ronen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?
Book Synopsis The Informational Feedback Effect of Stock Prices on Corporate Disclosure by : Luo Zuo (Ph. D.)
Download or read book The Informational Feedback Effect of Stock Prices on Corporate Disclosure written by Luo Zuo (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies whether managers use investor information they learn from the stock market when making forward-looking disclosures. Using annual management earnings forecasts from 1996 to 2010, I find that the association between forecast revisions and stock price changes over the revision periods is stronger when there is more informed trading. Further, the effect of investor information on the revision-return relation remains after controlling for various sources of managerial and public information, and is more pronounced when the information is more relevant to predicted earnings. In addition, more investor information contained in stock prices leads to a greater improvement in forecast accuracy but a weaker market reaction to the subsequent forecast announcement. My study highlights the two-way information flows between firms and capital markets and has implications for the real effects of financial markets.
Book Synopsis The Statistical Theory of Linear Systems by : E. J. Hannan
Download or read book The Statistical Theory of Linear Systems written by E. J. Hannan and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Wiley, c1988.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Capital Markets by : Chris Adcock
Download or read book The Chinese Capital Markets written by Chris Adcock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past China’s capital market featured prevalent state ownership and a weak legal environment. It has, however, achieved very substantial development in the past two decades. China has surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest stock market and has also emerged as a leading player in green bonds and Fintech markets. The chapters in this book provide insights on Chinese listed firms and advance the understanding of China’s unique institutions. Some important questions are covered including the governance role of foreign investors in partially privatized firms, the financial implications of political connections, the "Chinese model" of commercial banks and regulatory reforms that promote the marketization of the stock markets, among others. These studies have important implications for other emerging economies, on the recent China-US trade conflicts and about the Trump administration's complaints about the role of the Chinese government in capital markets. This book selectively includes the most influential articles from two special issues of The European Journal of Finance, which were based on selections of papers presented at a series of conferences on the Chinese Capital Markets.
Book Synopsis Disclosure Frequency and Earnings Management by : Hoje Jo
Download or read book Disclosure Frequency and Earnings Management written by Hoje Jo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a sample of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), we examine the relation between disclosure frequency and earnings management and the impact of this relation on SEOs' post-issue performance. We contend that firms with extensive disclosure are less likely to face information problems, leading to less earnings management and better post-issue performance. Consistent with these conjectures, this study presents evidence that disclosure frequency is inversely related to earnings management and positively associated with post-issue performance. In addition, we find that transparency-reducing disclosure is concentrated in firms that substantially, but temporarily increase disclosure prior to the offering. A non-persistent increase in disclosure is positively associated with earnings management and negatively associated with post-SEO stock performance.
Book Synopsis Shaping Liquidity by : Karthik Balakrishnan
Download or read book Shaping Liquidity written by Karthik Balakrishnan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can managers influence the liquidity of their firms' shares? We use plausibly exogenous variation in the supply of public information to show that firms seek to actively shape their information environments by voluntarily disclosing more information than is mandated by market regulations and that such efforts have a sizeable and beneficial effect on liquidity. Firms respond to an exogenous loss of public information by providing more timely and informative earnings guidance. Responses appear motivated by a desire to reduce information asymmetries between retail and institutional investors. Liquidity improves as a result of voluntary disclosure and in turn increases firm value. This suggests that managers can causally influence their cost of capital via voluntary disclosure.
Book Synopsis The Effect of Voluntary Disclosure on Stock Liquidity by : Jordan Schoenfeld
Download or read book The Effect of Voluntary Disclosure on Stock Liquidity written by Jordan Schoenfeld and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study tests whether voluntary disclosure affects stock liquidity. I argue that index funds fit the profile of nonstrategic traders who, according to theory, are unambiguously more likely than managers and strategic investors to prefer high stock liquidity and thus high disclosure. This suggests that I can use index funds' disclosure preferences to construct an empirical model of voluntary disclosure that abstracts away from managers' strategic disclosure motives. Accordingly, I use an index-fund setting to construct a recursive structural equation model of voluntary disclosure, index fund ownership, and liquidity. I find that when a firm joins the S&P 500 index, voluntary disclosure increases with the level of ownership assumed by index funds, and this increase in disclosure is associated with increased stock liquidity. These results imply that voluntary disclosure increases stock liquidity.
Book Synopsis Disclosure Quality and Market Liquidity by : Frank Heflin
Download or read book Disclosure Quality and Market Liquidity written by Frank Heflin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the relation between disclosure policy and market liquidity. Our tests examine how two key aspects of market liquidity, the effective bid-ask spread and quoted depth, relate to financial analysts' ratings of firms' disclosure policies. We introduce a method of combining order sizes and depth quotes to yield more precise estimates of effective spreads on trades likely constrained by quoted depth. We find that while firms with higher rated disclosures are charged lower effective spreads, they are also quoted lower depth, consistent with the notion that better disclosures reduce information asymmetry but cause some liquidity suppliers to exit the market (e.g. Diamond and Verrecchia 1991). Thus, a simple examination of spreads and depths yields ambiguous inferences on the relation between disclosure policy and market liquidity. We resolve this ambiguity by estimating depth-adjusted effective spreads, and find that firms with higher rated disclosures have lower depth-adjusted effective spreads across all trade sizes. Overall, our results suggest a robust inverse relation between disclosure ratings and effective trading costs. Thus, a policy of enhanced financial disclosure is related to improved market liquidity.
