2017
DOI: 10.1111/1475-679x.12166
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Earnings Management During Antidumping Investigations in Europe: Sample-Wide and Cross-Sectional Evidence

Abstract: This paper examines earnings management by EU firms that initiate an antidumping investigation. We first document economically and statistically significant income-decreasing earnings management around the initiation of an antidumping investigation. We show that earnings management increases when accounting data directly affect the magnitude of the tariffs imposed in * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; † Queen's University.Accepted by Christian Leuz. We are grateful to Marc Busch for assistance in un… Show more

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“…They managed the company's discretionary expenditures (Model 4 with coefficient -.119, z-stats -1.901, p-value<.05). Similar findings can also be observed in other recent research (see, Bozzolan, Fabrizi, Mallin, & Michelon, 2015;Wang et al, 2016;Huang & Sletten, 2017;Godsell, Welker, & Zhang, 2017).…”
Section: Control Variables On Earnings Managementsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…They managed the company's discretionary expenditures (Model 4 with coefficient -.119, z-stats -1.901, p-value<.05). Similar findings can also be observed in other recent research (see, Bozzolan, Fabrizi, Mallin, & Michelon, 2015;Wang et al, 2016;Huang & Sletten, 2017;Godsell, Welker, & Zhang, 2017).…”
Section: Control Variables On Earnings Managementsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…Shariah-compliant companies with high leverage also tend to engage in earnings-increasing through accruals. ( 22 . Then, if the size increases, it will lessen the earning management behaviour.…”
Section: B Descriptive Statistics Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An extensive literature in accounting studies managers' incentives to engage in earnings management and its impact on accounting quality. 23 Several papers document that firms manipulate their financial statements or make disclosure choices in response to equity offerings, financing constraints, and product-market competition (Balakrishnan et al, 2014;Bernard, 2016;Godsell et al, 2017;Teoh et al, 1998;Tomy, 2018). In this section, I study financial-reporting decisions of firms adversely affected by the shock, and find these firms became more aggressive in their revenue-recognition practices.…”
Section: Strategic Financial Reportingmentioning
confidence: 96%