Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish: Does Striving to Meet Earnings Expectations by Manipulating Real Activities Undermine Product Quality?

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主讲人 Yangyang Chen 简介 <p>We examine whether managers&rsquo; activities in striving to reach earnings targets affect their firms&rsquo; product quality. We find that firms suspected of manipulating real activities in trying to meet earnings benchmarks exhibit a higher likelihood and frequency of product recalls. Other evidence implies that high earnings pressure induces managers to manipulate real activities, resulting in more product quality failures. In cross-sectional results consistent with expectations, we find that the impact of exploiting real activities to attain earnings benchmarks on product recalls intensifies for firms whose managers have stronger incentives to manage earnings and subsides for firms subject to greater customer power and firms with more growth opportunities. Additional analysis shows that suspected benchmark targeting also raises the severity of product recalls.</p>
时间 2021-11-30(Tuesday)16:40-18:00 地点 The seminar will be held online
讲座语言 English 主办单位 厦门大学经济学院、王亚南经济研究院
承办单位 厦门大学经济学院、王亚南经济研究院 类型 系列讲座
联系人信息 主持人 Yue Pan
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主讲人简介 <p>Professor Yangyang Chen joined City University of Hong Kong in Oct 2019. He received his PhD from University of Melbourne and worked at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Monash University before joining. His research interests are in corporate finance and financial accounting, including management compensation, corporate innovation, audit quality and pricing, earnings management, corporate disclosure, and so on. His works have been published or accepted in <em>The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies</em>, etc.</p> 期数 金融经济学系列讲座2021年秋季学期第六讲（总89讲）
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