Purpose This study investigates the association between managerial ability and earnings quality in firms listed on Iraq Stock Exchange how emergence of Islamic State Syria (ISIS) influences association. Design/methodology/approach uses a sample over period 2012–2018. Managerial is quantified using data envelopment analysis, measured by restatement, persistence, accruals response coefficient. Pa...

This study examines the effect of managerial ability on subsequent stock price crash risk using listed firm data in Korea. Compared to some financially advanced countries, the influence of managers is particularly more powerful in Korea, as ownership and management are not effectively separate in most Korean firms. In addition, we considered the effect of large business groups called Chaebol, w...

Using data on 2941 practicing managerial accountants, we explore rank-based di€erences in measured ability, and technical, industry, and tacit managerial knowledge. Our data indicate that concomitant with increases in rank are: (1) decreasing levels of, and increasing variability in, measured entry-level technical knowledge, (2) increasing measured levels of, and generally decreasing variabilit...

I use structural portfolio management models to study the joint cross-sectional distribution of managerial ability and risk preferences using manager-level data. The economic restrictions following from theory imply that (i) fund alphas reflect the manager’s ability and risk preferences and that (ii) information in second moments of fund returns can be used to estimate both attributes. The esti...

W propose a measure of managerial ability, based on managers’ efficiency in generating revenues, which is available for a large sample of firms and outperforms existing ability measures. We find that our measure is strongly associated with manager fixed effects and that the stock price reactions to chief executive officer (CEO) turnovers are positive (negative) when we assess the outgoing CEO a...