this paper divulges the long term relationship among earning, investment and dividends from 2000 to 2011. empirical evidence was collected to explore the modigliani and miller theory of dividend irrelevance. data was collected from all the sectors but it was ensured that firms did not have negative data of earnings as it is earnings which are either transformed into investment or dividends. mul...

In this paper, I examine a new approach for measuring earnings quality, defined as the closeness of reported earnings to “permanent earnings,” based on firm decisions with regard to capital and labor investments. Specifically, I measure earnings quality as the contemporaneous association between changes in the levels of capital and labor investment and the change in reported earnings. This appr...

Existing research suggests that market misvaluations affect corporate investment, often leading to suboptimal investment. I examine whether earnings smoothing reduces the impact of market misvaluations on corporate investment and in turn enhances investment efficiency. I find that earnings smoothing has a strong negative effect on the sensitivity of corporate investment to stock prices. Further...

company’s value depends on its longterm ability to generate cash to fund value-creating growth and pay dividends to its shareholders. Even so, investment managers commonly base their stock selections on short-term earnings and portfolio tracking error rather than discounted cash flow (DCF)—the standard for valuing financial assets in well-functioning capital markets. Financial analysts fixate o...

Prior research shows that firms generating earnings growth by improving profitability create shareholder value, while firms generating earnings growth through investment destroy value. This paper examines whether compensation committees consider this while determining CEO compensation. We first confirm prior results that growth from increased profitability is perceived by markets to add value w...

To investigate how the possibility of earnings manipulation affects managerial compensation contracts, we study a two period agency setting in which a firm’s manager can engage in “window dressing” activities to manipulate reported accounting earnings. Earnings manipulation boosts the reported earnings in one period at the expense of the reported earnings in the other period. We show that the p...

information asymmetry in stock market can increase the risk of investment which in turn increases the capital cost of firms. bhattacharya (1979) proposed a hypothesis that states dividend can act as a powerful signal in order to solve information asymmetry problem. we measured information asymmetry by lack of earnings transparency. therefore we examine the effect of earnings transparency on cap...

This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and non-cognitive skills, which enhance earnings and school outcomes. It also finds that a standard Mincer earnings ...

This paper divulges the long term relationship among earning, investment and dividends from 2000 to 2011. Empirical evidence was collected to explore the Modigliani and miller theory of dividend irrelevance. Data was collected from all the sectors but it was ensured that firms did not have negative data of earnings as it is earnings which are either transformed into investment or dividends. Mul...

There is a literature that examines the statistical properties of earnings dynamics by testing heterogeneous growth against random walk. This test is of great consequence because rejection of heterogeneous growth has often been interpreted as rejection of a key role for heterogeneity in human capital investment over the life-cycle. This paper shows that optimal life-cycle investment behavior im...