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Trade Publication
Hit 'Em Where It Hurts, ESG Investing 2.0
November 1, 2018
We suggest a new approach to ESG investing that we believe may be more effective in making negative investor views known to management — while at the same time potentially improving portfolio expected returns.
Journal Article
Corporate Governance, Accounting Outcomes and Organizational Performance
July 2, 2007
The purpose of this paper is to start the process of developing reliable and valid measures to assess how corporate governance affects corporate performance.
Working Paper
Earnings Quality and Financial Reporting Credibility: An Empirical Investigation
July 1, 1999
Firms with extremely high accruals experience subsequent reductions in earnings and are more likely to be subject to SEC enforcement actions. Do analysts anticipate the earnings reductions in their forecasts? We investigate here.
Journal Article
Accruals and Future Performance: Can It Be Attributed to Risk?
April 4, 2015
We decompose broad based measures of accruals into firm specific and related firm components.
Book
Evaluating Financial Reporting Quality
May 1, 2012
This chapter touches on major themes in financial reporting quality. Many of the techniques described here are used by analysts to make security recommendations and by asset managers in making portfolio allocation decisions.
Journal Article
Discussion of Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors
May 2, 2005
Research by Suraj Srinivasan of the University of Chicago examines the turnover rates of outside directors at companies that restate their results.
Journal Article
Earnings Quality and Short Sellers
December 31, 2003
Earnings quality is often defined in terms of persistence and sustainability.
Journal Article
Managerial Decision Making and Capital Structure
January 1, 1993
This article investigates leverage influence on project selection.
Working Paper
Back-Door Links Between Directors and Executive Compensation
February 1, 2005
A key task of a board of directors is to determine the compensation of the CEO. We studied whether ties between directors, or between the CEO and members of the compensation committee, affect how much the CEO receives.
Journal Article
Assessing Risk through Environmental, Social and Governance Exposures
February 24, 2017
ESG investing may have a role in portfolios that extends beyond ethical considerations, particularly for investors interested in tilting toward safer stocks, and in a way that complements what is captured by traditional statistical risk models.