Product Market Competition, Information and Earnings Management

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting - Tập 41 Số 5-6 - Trang 572-599 - 2014
Garen Markarian1, Juan Santaló2
1Address for correspondence: Garen Markarian, Associate Professor, IE Business School, Pinar 15, 1B, Madrid, 28006, Spain#R##N##R##N#e-mail: [email protected]
2The first author is an Associate Professor at IE Business School, Madrid, Spain. The second author is a Professor at IE Business School, Madrid, Spain. The authors are grateful for helpful comments from Santhosh Ramalingegowda, Robert Watson, Steve Crawford, Juan Manuel Garcia-Lara, Belen Gil-de-Albornoz and conference participants at the AAA annual meeting (Washington, DC), the Jornadas de Economia Industrial annual meeting (Carlos III, Madrid) and the EAA annual meeting (Rotterdam). The authors would also like to thank the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant n. ECO2010-17625 and SEJ2007-67582-CO2-01).

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AbstractWe study theoretically the effect of product market competition on the incentives to engage in earnings manipulation, and we show how manipulating earnings is particularly rewarding in more competitive markets since the boost in market value of reporting good earnings is especially important. Using a panel dataset of about 70,000 observations spanning the period 1989–2011, we document that the competitive environment is an important determinant of Jones type discretionary accruals and it also affects real earnings management. In additional analysis, we find that the effect of competition on earnings manipulation is particularly important for companies that seem to be underperforming their competitors and that the competition‐earnings management linkage is moderated by the degree of information visibility at the industry level.

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Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Tập 41 Số 5-6

572-599

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