Institutional ownership, earnings management and earnings surprises: evidence from 39 years of U.S. data

Justin G. Davis, Miguel García-Cestona
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Purpose As the influence of institutional investors over managerial decision-making grows, so does the importance of understanding the effect of institutional investor ownership (IO) on firm outcomes. The authors take a comprehensive approach to studying the effect of IO on earnings management (EM). Design/methodology/approach The authors study the relation between IO and EM using a sample of 59,503 listed U.S. firm-year observations from 1981–2019. The authors proxy EM with earnings surprises and with accrual-based and real activity measures. The authors test for nonlinear relations and analyze changes resulting from the passage of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act. Findings The findings support a positive IO-EM relation overall, but show that the relation is dynamic and heavily context-dependent with evidence of nonlinearity. The authors also find evidence that IO positively affects accrual-based EM and real activities EM negatively. Originality/value To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study of the IO-EM relation to consider evidence of nonlinearity in the U.S. context, measuring changes to the relation over time, and with the use of several measures of EM.
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机构持股、盈余管理和盈余意外:来自美国39年数据的证据
随着机构投资者对管理决策的影响越来越大,理解机构投资者所有权(IO)对公司结果的影响的重要性也越来越大。本文采用一种综合的方法来研究IO对盈余管理的影响。作者使用1981-2019年59,503个美国上市公司年度观察样本研究了IO和EM之间的关系。两位作者用意外收益、基于权责发生制和实际活动指标来衡量新兴市场。作者检验了非线性关系,并分析了萨班斯-奥克斯利法案通过后的变化。研究结果总体上支持一个积极的IO-EM关系,但表明这种关系是动态的,并且严重依赖于非线性的证据。作者还发现证据表明,IO对权责发生制的EM有积极影响,而对实际活动EM有消极影响。原创性/价值据作者所知,这是第一个考虑美国背景下非线性证据的IO-EM关系研究,测量了随时间的关系变化,并使用了几种EM测量方法。
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Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science
Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)
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