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The frequency and magnitude of earnings management in China

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  • Yaping Wang
  • Shaw Chen
  • Bing-Xuan Lin
  • Liansheng Wu

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Earnings management is an indicator of the corporate governance quality and investor protection standard. We study the frequencies and magnitudes of earnings management under two different thresholds, zero earnings and prior earnings, in the Chinese market from 1997 to 2004. We model earnings as a mixed-normal distribution and obtain parameter estimators that measure the frequency and magnitude of earnings management. We show that the practice of earnings management has gone up both in frequency and magnitude during the post-2000 period. We also find that the frequency and magnitude of earnings management are higher when firms try to avoid negative earnings than when firms try to report earnings increase. Our findings reflect the current economic environment in China and caution investors on the low-disclosure quality in the Chinese stock market.

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  • Yaping Wang & Shaw Chen & Bing-Xuan Lin & Liansheng Wu, 2008. "The frequency and magnitude of earnings management in China," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(24), pages 3213-3225.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:40:y:2008:i:24:p:3213-3225
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840600994138
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    4. Bert Scholtens & Feng‐Ching Kang, 2013. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Earnings Management: Evidence from Asian Economies," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 20(2), pages 95-112, March.
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    10. Rachappa Shette, 2018. "Earnings Management to Avoid Losses: Evidence from India," Working papers 255, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
    11. Liu, Baohua & Zhang, Nihui & Chan, Kam C. & Chen, Yining & Qiu, Xuemei, 2024. "Executive equity incentive plans: Effective golden handcuffs?," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 83-97.

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