Winstegalisatie (‘Income smoothing’)

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...

A Relationship Between Income Smoothing Practices And Firms Value In Iran

Institutional Ownership, Business Cycles and Earnings Informativeness of Income Smoothing: Evidence from Iran

Managers engage in income smoothing either to communicate private information about future earnings to investors (informativeness hypothesis) or to distort financial performance for opportunistic purposes (opportunism hypothesis). Business cycles and the monitoring role of institutional ownership may affect the earnings informativeness of income smoothing. The purpose of this research is to exa...

The Role of Micro-Finance for Income and Consumption Smoothing