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Refinancing risk, earnings management, and stock return

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  • Wang, Shu-Feng
  • Kim, Yura
  • Kim, Seonmi
  • Song, Kyojik “Roy”

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This paper presents empirical evidence that a firm’s refinancing risk affects its income-increasing earnings management. We find that refinancing risk is positively associated with discretionary accruals and that interaction between leverage and refinancing risk aggravates the incentive to manage earnings. We also find that the firm’s cash holdings attenuate the adverse effect of the refinancing risk on the earnings management. In addition, we document that the discretionary accruals of firms with high refinancing risk are negatively associated with one-year-ahead stock returns. Our results suggest that firms with higher refinancing risk have opportunistic incentives to inflate earnings to appear financially healthy, but the effect of earnings management is temporary.

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  • Wang, Shu-Feng & Kim, Yura & Kim, Seonmi & Song, Kyojik “Roy”, 2024. "Refinancing risk, earnings management, and stock return," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 70(PB).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:riibaf:v:70:y:2024:i:pb:s0275531924001867
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102393
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    Keywords

    Refinancing risk; Cash holdings; Discretionary accruals; Earnings management; Stock return;
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    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting

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