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    Three essays in accounting

    Author
    Teng, Haimeng
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    Wu, Qiang; Francis, Bill; Hasan, Iftekhar; Maharjan, Johan;
    Date Issued
    2019-08
    Subject
    Management
    Degree
    PhD;
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    This electronic version is a licensed copy owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Copyright of original work retained by author.;
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13015/2463
    Abstract
    In chapter one, I examine the effect of passive institutional holdings on firms’ earnings quality by exploiting the variation in passive ownership around Russell 1000/2000 index cutoff. Using four sets of earnings quality proxies (properties of earnings, investor responsiveness to earnings, external indicators of earnings misstatements, and real earnings management), I find that passive ownership improves earnings quality. Furthermore, this effect is more pronounced in firms with lower active institutional ownership. Finally, I find firms with higher passive ownership undertake more long-term investments. My finding that higher passive ownership improves earnings quality in their portfolio companies suggests that passive investors play an important role in corporate governance.; Chapter two investigates the gender effect on asymmetric cost behavior. I find robust evidence that firms with female CEOs exhibit less cost asymmetry than firms with male CEOs. Cross-sectional tests show that this gender effect is concentrated in the economic downturn period, firms with higher business risk, and CEOs with higher personal career concerns, corroborating that females’ risk-aversion is the underlying mechanism through which female CEOs affect asymmetric cost.; In chapter three, I find that foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are negatively associated with their investee firms’ tax avoidance. I provide evidence that the effect is driven by the costs associated with institutional distance between FIIs’ home countries and host countries. Specifically, I find that the negative effect is driven by the influence of FIIs from countries with high-quality formal institutions (i.e., high-shareholder-protection, high-government-effectiveness, and high-regulatory-quality) / high-quality informal institutions (i.e., high-tax-morality, low-corruption, and high-religiosity) on investee firms located in countries with low-quality formal institutions/low-quality informal institutions. Finally, I show that the effect is also concentrated on FIIs with stronger monitoring incentives.; This dissertation consists of three distinct but related essays examining how diversity of investors (e.g., passive investors and foreign institutional investors) and managers (e.g., CEOs) affects firms’ accounting decision-making.;
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    August 2019; School of Management
    Department
    Lally School of Management;
    Publisher
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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