Smart city and earnings management: Evidence from China. [PDF]
Sun D, Chen C.
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Do Banks Learn From Natural Disasters? Evidence From the U.S. Financial Sector
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether U.S. banks learn from natural disasters. We explore several potential channels of adjustment and find that exposed banks primarily respond by adopting precautionary capital measures. This behaviour is evident both in the long run, when assessing divergent trends in the evolution of equity over time, and in the short
Dennis Dreusch +2 more
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Are managers of emerging markets more opportunistic? application of Benford's Law. [PDF]
Hassan S, Aksar M, Ahmad M, Kajanova J.
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From Regression to Reasoning: Predicting M&A Announcement Returns With Large Language Models
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can predict short‐term market reactions to M&A announcements. We prompt OpenAI's latest reasoning models (o3, GPT‐5, and GPT‐5.1) to forecast whether the combined market value of acquirer and target will increase or decrease, drawing on deal‐, firm‐, and macroeconomic data for large ...
Maximilian Schreiter +2 more
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Revisiting Asset Pricing Models: The Case for an Intangibles Factor
ABSTRACT In an increasingly knowledge‐based economy, intangible assets may be an important driver of firm performance and stock returns. We introduce an intangibles intensity factor (INT), distinct from the organization capital factor, and show that exposure to this factor strongly predicts stock returns, outperforming traditional factors.
Dion Bongaerts +2 more
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Labor unionization and real earnings management: Evidence from labor elections. [PDF]
Astvansh V, Wang B, Chen T, Qu JC.
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Financial Statement Information and Equity Value: The Role of Real Options Characteristics
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether firm‐specific real options characteristics are equity value‐relevant beyond valuation estimates anchored in financial statements. Using extensive historical data for the United Kingdom, we assess and compare the forecast accuracy and explanatory power for stock prices of equity valuation models based on residual ...
Mingyu (Chandler) Chen +2 more
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Earnings Quality and Corporate Governance in IPO Firms [PDF]
Calegari, Mary F., Harjoto, M. A
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Lender‐Affiliated Analysts and Syndicated Loans
ABSTRACT Loans to borrowers covered by affiliated analysts have lower spreads. This effect is driven mostly by affiliated analysts sharing information with, rather than demanding information from, lending arms. Exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in brokerage affiliations, we find that the results are likely to be causal.
Yongqiang Chu, Tao Ma, Cong (Roman) Wang
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Residual Income Valuation and Stock Returns: Evidence From a Value‐to‐Price Investment Strategy*
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the accounting and asset pricing anomalies literature by investigating the performance of value‐to‐price (V/P) strategies, and the relationship between V/P ratio and various risk proxies. If the V/P ratio successfully predicts future returns at stock level, we hypothesize that portfolios based on the V/P ratio ...
Ahmad Haboub +2 more
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