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- Title
The Informational and Strategic Impacts of Real Earnings Management.
- Authors
Shirley J. Ho; Hao-Chang Sung
- Abstract
We address the informational and strategic impacts of real earnings management (REM) in a two-period oligopoly model with one-sided information. For the strategic impacts of REM, once the demand falls short of expectation, a firm should raise the price instead of cutting it to reach the earnings target. For the informational impacts, to maintain opponents' uncertainty, the privately informed firm could conceal its identity by taking a mixed strategy and setting the first period price to be higher than in the separating equilibrium. Finally, the presence of tunnelling from cross-shareholding firm will enhance the price cut in the second period.
- Subjects
EARNINGS management; OLIGOPOLIES; ECONOMIC models; STOCKHOLDERS; MARKET manipulation; ECONOMIC demand; ECONOMIC equilibrium
- Publication
Annals of Economics & Finance, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 2, p355
- ISSN
1529-7373
- Publication type
Article