Using a sample of banks, this study examines the capital market pricing implications of three components of loan fair values. We find that the nondiscretionary component is priced on a dollar-for-dollar basis, the discretionary component is assigned a significantly larger multiple than the nondiscretionary component and the noise component is not priced. This implies that the relevance and reli...

The reduction in transportation costs when travelling with a low-cost airline (LCA) seems to have modified the composition of the trip budget. An understanding of expenditure composition when comparing LCA and legacy airline travellers is vital for destination marketers. Using micro official statistics data for air travellers to Spain in 2010 and the compositional data analysis (CODA) methodolo...

Behavioral dimensions of customer satisfaction with Vendor-Provided Information Services (VPIS) were investigated and three categories of satisfaction-related behaviors were identified:· (1) discretionary collaborative behaviors, (2) switching behaviors, and (3) contending behaviors. Of these three classes, discretionary collaborative behaviors appear to have the strongest relationship with sat...

We study discretionary non-cooperative monetary and fiscal policy stabilization in the New Keynesian model, where the fiscal authority uses distortionary taxes as policy instrument. We explicitly model different frequencies of fiscal and monetary policy operations. We find that standard models of monetary and fiscal policy interactions may substantially overestimate the social gain from the sta...

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...

We extend the Monacelli [Monacelli, T. (2005). Monetary policy in a low pass-through environment. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 37(6), 1047–1066]model to allow for a central bank that penalizes nominal interest rate paths that are too close to the zero lower bound. We analytically derive the optimal interest-rate policy rule in each equilibrium under four policy regimes: (i) benchmark c...

Purpose: The study aimed to examine whether the financial statements of listed companies at Colombo Stock Exchange are value-relevant and what impact they have on stock price returns. Methodology: A model based red flag ratios that been proven be possible fraud indicators falsified in various contexts was developed employed. Furthermore, accruals quality measured by discretionary non-discretion...