Financial reporting quality and idiosyncratic return volatility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rajgopal, Shiva; Venkatachalam, Mohan
• 署名单位: Duke University; Emory University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0165-4101
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2010.06.001
• 发表日期: 2011
• 关键词: information-content; VALUE-RELEVANCE; earnings announcements; individual stocks; Cash flows; accruals; RISK; valuation; liquidity; drives

摘要

Campbell et al. (2001) document that firms' stock returns have become more volatile in the U.S. since 1960. We hypothesize and find that deteriorating earnings quality is associated with higher idiosyncratic return volatility over 1962-2001. These results are robust to controlling for (i) inter-temporal changes in the disclosure of value-relevant information, sophistication of investors and the possibility that earnings quality can be informative about future cash flows; (ii) stock return performance, cash flow operating performance, cash flow variability, growth, leverage and firm size; and (iii) new listings, high-technology firms, firm-years with losses, mergers and acquisitions and financial distress. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.