We document that firms’ management of accounting earnings increased steadily from 1987 until the passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), with a significant increase during the period prior to SOX, followed by a significant decline after passage of SOX. However, the increase in earnings management preceding SOX was primarily in poorly performing industries. We also show that the informativeness...

كچ ي هد :فده و هقباس و ينميا رب رچسوپ لرتنك رد للاتخا تيلاعف ماگنه رد تاكرح تيفيك اه ي و هرمزور ريرايا ييشزرو يم رب رروم لماوع زا يكي .دراذگ رچسوپ لرتنك فاطعنا يم تلاضع يريذپ يلع .دشاب اتتيسن عويش مغر يهاياوك داييز ه رد ،گنيرتسمه هلضع ي چ هعلاطم طاتارا يا ن يسررب لداعا اب هلضع نيا يهااوك هديش هيعلاطم نييا زا فديه .تيسا و كيااتسا لداعا اب گنيرتسمه هلضع يهااوك طاتارا يسررب يم ملاس...

Contrary to the implicit assumption motivating much of the work on the political economy of protection, antidumping, along with other forms of administered protection, is the primary form of discretionary protection for most countries. A sizable literature on the political economy of antidumping has developed in the last two decades that is distinctive in its explicit focus on institutional asp...