In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates and labor market outcomes in the United States. Based on data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses, I f...

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the purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. the research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from iran stock market. empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by value added intellectual coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

Many empirical studies have established that state dependence varies across consumers, brands, and categories. Previous analytic models have assumed that state dependence is a customer characteristic that does not vary across firms. In contrast, we take the view that state dependence varies by firm. That is, a well-known national brand, such as Tide detergent, may be able to attract more repeat...

Theory suggests that managers issue earnings forecasts to reduce information asymmetry. An earnings forecast is more effective in reducing information asymmetry if it contains earnings news that is relatively more informative about the firm’s value. We hypothesize that a manager is more likely to issue an earnings forecast if investors perceive that earnings are more informative. We measure ear...

This paper uses Italian panel data from the private and public sectors and analyses earnings dynamics by applying the minimum distance estimator of Chamberlain (1984). We consider two main aspects of earnings careers. First, we estimate a measure of earnings growth heterogeneity, whereby quantifying to what extent the two sectors differ in the ability to differentiate remuneration of time-varyi...

This study investigates the impact of reporting comprehensive income and other through performance or equity statements on firms' earnings management selective sale available-for-sale (AFS) securities. The objective is to explore how Canadian firms can improve transparency by altering managers' accounting behavior switching from statements. used a difference-in-differences method in quasi-exper...

Both prior research and the popular financial press suggest that earnings smoothing is associated with higher valuations, per dollar of reported earnings. Apparently, smoothing causes reported earnings to be a less noisy measure of “permanent” earnings that can be sustained over the longterm. We extend those results to examine whether earnings smoothing is associated with higher valuations per ...

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This research aimed to study the behavior of real earnings management and earnings management based on accruals to achieve an average profitability of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this study, we focus on the optional operating cash flow, optional cost and production cost as real earnings management representatives as well as discretionary accruals as an earnings management acco...