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Regulation, Deregulation, Reregulation
- Publisher
- Springer Journals
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Subject
- Business and Management; Accounting/Auditing; Corporate Finance; Public Finance
- ISSN
- 1380-6653
- eISSN
- 1573-7136
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1009617023027
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
We develop and estimate a PC-industry specific model in which proxies for both discretion and non-discretion are used to partition loss reserve revisions into discretionary and non-discretionary components. The use of such proxies enables us to test directional hypotheses about the relations between the revision components and future profitability, risk and market value. We predict and find that discretionary revisions are negatively associated with future profitability, positively associated with firm risk, and negatively associated with market-to-book ratios. We predict and find that non-discretionary revisions are positively associated with future profitability and risk but are not associated with market-to-book ratios.
Journal
Review of Accounting Studies – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 16, 2004