Income Smoothing and the Cost of Debt

Income Smoothing, Investor Reaction and Earnings Persistence

The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of income smoothing on investors reaction to Earnings Persistence of companies listed on the Stock Exchange in Tehran. The population of the study was companies listed on the Stock Exchange in Tehran, the sample size due to screening method and after removing outliers is equal to 118 companies. In this study, earnings persistence an...

Remittances and Income Smoothing

Remittances and Income Smoothing Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for reverse ca...

The cost and income efficiency models with MOLP structure

In this paper, the cost and income efficiency models have been considered with regard to the multiple objective programming structures. For finding the efficient points in purposed MOLP problem, some various methods like Lexicography & the weighted sum can be used. So by introducing the MOLP problem the cost & income efficiencies will be achieved. In the present study, the MOLP problem is conve...

Income Inequality and Household Debt

Accounting Quality, Debt Covenants Design, and the Cost of Debt

We examine whether the presence of alternative debt covenant designs (threshold tightness, covenants frequency and covenant interdependence) reduces the adverse effect of poor accounting quality on debt cost in the private lending market. Our results indicate that when lenders face borrowing firms characterized by low accounting quality (hereafter, low quality borrowers), the lender tends to in...