Consistent with prior evidence about greater persistence of revenues and greater noise caused by heterogeneity of expenses, this study shows that the post-earningsannouncement-drift is stronger when the revenue surprise is in the same direction as the earnings surprise. The results of the study are consistent for the earnings and revenue surprise estimated from historical time series and also f...

The 'watch dog' role of the media, the impact of migration processes, health care access for children in developing countries, mitigation of the effects of Global Warming are typical examples of governance issues – issues to be tackled at the base; issues to be solved by creating and implementing effective policy. to pave the road for innovative policy developments in Europe and the world today...

Prior research found that Residual Income (RI) is, at best, minimally informative about stock returns relative to Earnings, despite strong support for RI in theory and among practitioners. We examine three possible explanations for this puzzle. First, the empirical literature ignores some salient feature of practice or theory. Second, the market does not fully impound all of the information fro...

R research has shown that managers in publicly traded companies facing earnings pressure—the pressure to meet or beat securities analysts’ earnings forecasts—may make business decisions to improve short-term earnings. Analysts’ forward-looking performance forecasts can serve as powerful motivation for managers, but may also encourage them to undertake short-term actions detrimental to future co...

We examine the asset value of advertising expenditures for a sample of takes the form of future cash flows, which derive from future sales. Future sales are influenced by advertising expenditures, 320 firms with reported advertising expenditures for each of the 10 consecutive years ending in 1994. We find that, depending upon the which alter customer preferences for particular products or vendo...

Using a data set of Taiwanese female graduates in 2006, this study finds that height and earnings are positively correlated for full-time workers. However, it is not because tall individuals went to better colleges or received better grades (cognitive ability), not because they are gifted with superior physical strength or because they have participated in more extracurricular activities (non-c...

This article assesses various underlying driving factors for the evolution of household earnings inequality for 23 OECD countries from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. There are a number of factors at play. Some are related to labour market trends – increasing dispersion of individual wages and changes in men's and women's employment rates. Others relate to shifts in household structures and fam...