Henock Louis

Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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University Park, PA 16802-3306

United States

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1.

Conservatism, Analyst Ability, and Forecast Error: Evidence on Financial Statement Users' Ability to Account for Conservatism

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2014
Henock Louis, Thomas Z. Lys and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Houston
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Accounting conservatism, analyst forecast error

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Value of Cash Holdings and Accounting Conservatism

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Value of Cash Holdings and Accounting Conservatism

AAA 2010 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2011
Henock Louis, Amy X. Sun and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 1,782 (10,721)
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Cash holdings, Accounting conservatism, Agency costs

Value of Cash Holdings and Accounting Conservatism

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015
Henock Louis, Amy X. Sun and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Cash holdings, Accounting conservatism, Agency costs

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Earnings Management and Firm Performance Following Open-Market Repurchases

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Earnings Management and Firm Performance Following Open-Market Repurchases

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Nov 2006
Guojin Gong, Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
University of Connecticut, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston
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Share repurchase, Earnings management, Operating performance, Stock performance

Earnings Management and Firm Performance Following Open-Market Repurchases

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Guojin Gong, Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
University of Connecticut, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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Share repurchase, Earnings management, Operating performance, Stock performance

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Earnings Management and the Market Performance of Acquiring Firms

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Earnings Management and the Market Performance of Acquiring Firms

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Nov 2002
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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earnings management, merger, market efficiency, rational expectation, analysts' forecasts, long-term performance

Earnings Management and the Market Performance of Acquiring Firms

Posted: 04 Dec 2003
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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earnings management, merger, analyst forecast, market efficiency, rational expectations, long-term performance, accruals

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Earnings Management and the Post-Earnings Announcement Drift

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Earnings Management and the Post-Earnings Announcement Drift

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2011
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston
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Market anomalies, post-earnings-announcement drift, (abnormal) accrual anomaly, earnings management, earnings smoothing

Earnings management and the Post-Earnings Announcement Drift

Financial Management, Forthcoming
Posted: 19 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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Market anomalies, post-earnings-announcement drift, (abnormal) accrual anomaly, earnings management, earnings smoothing

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The Effects of the Extant Clauses Limiting Auditor Liability on Audit Fees and Overall Reporting Quality

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The Effects of the Extant Clauses Limiting Auditor Liability on Audit Fees and Overall Reporting Quality

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Henock Louis, Tom Pearson, Dahlia Robinson, Michael Robinson and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Hawaii, University of South Florida, University of Tampa and University of Houston
Downloads 1,249 (18,736)

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Auditor liability; liability limiting agreement; audit quality; reporting quality

The Effects of the Extant Clauses Limiting Auditor Liability on Audit Fees and Overall Reporting Quality

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 381-410, 2019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 May 2019
Henock Louis, Thomas C. Pearson, Dahlia Robinson, Michael N. Robinson and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa - Department of Accounting, University of South Florida, University of South Florida and University of Houston
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The Effect of IFRS on Cross-Border Acquisitions

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015
Henock Louis and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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IFRS, foreign direct investments, M&A, cross-border acquisitions

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Do Managers Credibly Use Accruals to Signal Private Information? Evidence from the Pricing of Discretionary Accruals Around Stock Splits

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Do Managers Credibly Use Accruals to Signal Private Information? Evidence from the Pricing of Discretionary Accruals Around Stock Splits

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Nov 2003
Henock Louis and Dahlia Robinson
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and Arizona State University - School of Accountancy
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Stock split, earnings management, signaling, market efficiency, income smoothing

Do Managers Credibly Use Accruals to Signal Private Information? Evidence from the Pricing of Discretionary Accruals Around Stock Splits

Posted: 14 Jul 2004
Henock Louis and Dahlia Robinson
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and Arizona State University - School of Accountancy

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Discretionary accruals, Earnings management, Stock split, Signaling

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Acquirers' Abnormal Returns, Audit Firm Size, and the Small Auditor Clientele Effect

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jan 2004
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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Auditing, merger, audit quality, auditor size, auditor clientele, private target, Sarbanes-Oxley

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Managers' and Investors' Responses to Media Exposure of Board Ineffectiveness

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Managers' and Investors' Responses to Media Exposure of Board Ineffectiveness

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 May 2005
Henock Louis, Jennifer R. Joe and Dahlia Robinson
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS and Arizona State University - School of Accountancy
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corporate governance, investor trading behavior, media, public exposure

Managers' and Investors' Responses to Media Exposure of Board Ineffectiveness

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Posted: 19 Sep 2007
Jennifer R. Joe, Henock Louis and Dahlia Robinson
University of Delaware - Accounting & MIS, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and Arizona State University - School of Accountancy

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Media, Public exposure, Board effectiveness, Corporate governance, Behavioral economics, Individual and institutional investor trading

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The Causes of Post-Merger Underperformance: Evidence from Successful and Unsuccessful Bidders

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Sep 2002
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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merger, book-to-market ratio, failed bid, information asymmetry, performance extrapolation, earnings mis-pricing

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The Value Relevance of the Foreign Translation Adjustment

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The Value Relevance of the Foreign Translation Adjustment

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Oct 2002
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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comprehensive income, foreign translation adjustment, international accounting, value relevance

The Value Relevance of the Foreign Translation Adjustment

Posted: 24 Apr 2003
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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comprehensive income, foreign translation adjustment, foreign exchange, international accounting, value relevance, multinational firms

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Insider Selling, Earnings Management, and the 1990s Bubble

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 30 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2014
Steven J. Huddart and Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Accounting and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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equity incentives, insider trading, financial reporting, smoothing

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An Integrated Analysis of the Association between Accrual Disclosure and the Abnormal Accrual Anomaly

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An Integrated Analysis of the Association between Accrual Disclosure and the Abnormal Accrual Anomaly

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Dec 2005
Henock Louis, Dahlia Robinson and Andrew M. Sbaraglia
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, Arizona State University - School of Accountancy and Florida International University
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Discretionary accruals, ERC, SEC filing, disclosure, mispricing

An Integrated Analysis of the Association between Accrual Disclosure and the Abnormal Accrual Anomaly

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Posted: 24 Dec 2006
Henock Louis, Dahlia Robinson and Andrew M. Sbaraglia
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, Arizona State University - School of Accountancy and Florida International University

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Discretionary accruals, ERC, SEC filing, disclosure, mispricing

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Investor Inattention and the Market Reaction to Merger Announcements

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Investor Inattention and the Market Reaction to Merger Announcements

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 May 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston
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Investor inattention, merger announcement, market efficiency

Investor Inattention and the Market Reaction to Merger Announcements

Management Science, Forthcoming
Posted: 16 May 2010
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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Investor inattention, Merger, Market efficiency

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Financial Reporting and Conflicting Managerial Incentives: The Case of Management Buyouts

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Financial Reporting and Conflicting Managerial Incentives: The Case of Management Buyouts

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2008
Paul E. Fischer and Henock Louis
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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MBO, earnings management, reporting incentives, debt financing

Financial Reporting and Conflicting Managerial Incentives: The Case of Management Buyouts

Management Science, Forthcoming
Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Paul E. Fischer and Henock Louis
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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MBO, earnings management, reporting incentives, debt financing

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Voluntary Disclosure to Influence Investor Reactions to Merger Announcements: An Examination of Conference Calls

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Voluntary Disclosure to Influence Investor Reactions to Merger Announcements: An Examination of Conference Calls

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS RHS-06-134
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2011
Michael D. Kimbrough and Henock Louis
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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Conference calls, voluntary disclosure, mergers

Voluntary Disclosure to Influence Investor Reactions to Merger Announcements: An Examination of Conference Calls

Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 27 Aug 2010
Michael D. Kimbrough and Henock Louis
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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Earnings Management, Lawsuits, and Stock-for-Stock Acquirers' Market Performance

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Earnings Management, Lawsuits, and Stock-for-Stock Acquirers' Market Performance

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2008
Guojin Gong, Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
University of Connecticut, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston
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Stock-for-stock merger, earnings management, lawsuit, market efficiency

Earnings Management, Lawsuits, and Stock-for-Stock Acquirers' Market Performance

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Posted: 15 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2008
Guojin Gong, Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
University of Connecticut, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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Stock-for-stock merger, earnings management, lawsuit, market efficiency

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Agency Conflicts, Dividend Payout, and the Direct Benefits of Conservative Financial Reporting to Equity-Holders

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Agency Conflicts, Dividend Payout, and the Direct Benefits of Conservative Financial Reporting to Equity-Holders

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 25 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Henock Louis and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Payout; Accounting conservatism; Agency costs

Agency Conflicts, Dividend Payout, and the Direct Benefits of Conservative Financial Reporting to Equity-Holders

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 21 Dec 2013
Henock Louis and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Payout; Accounting conservatism; Agency costs

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Stock Liquidity and Corporate Tax Avoidance

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2017
Yangyang Chen, Rui Ge, Henock Louis and Leon Zolotoy
City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Accountancy, Shenzhen University - Shenzhen Audencia Business School, Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
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Stock Liquidity, Tax Avoidance, Agency Conflicts

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Insider Trading After Repurchase Tender Offer Announcements: Timing versus Informed Trading

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Insider Trading After Repurchase Tender Offer Announcements: Timing versus Informed Trading

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2008
Henock Louis, Amy X. Sun and Hal D. White
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Houston and University of Notre Dame
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insider trading, repurchase

Insider Trading after Repurchase Tender Offer Announcements: Timing Versus Informed Trading

Financial Management, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Sep 2008
Henock Louis, Amy X. Sun and Hal D. White
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Houston and University of Notre Dame

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insider trading, repurchase

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Do Analysts Sacrifice Forecast Accuracy for Informativeness?

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Do Analysts Sacrifice Forecast Accuracy for Informativeness?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 29 May 2012 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2012
Henock Louis, Amy X. Sun and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Analyst forecast informativeness, Forecast accuracy, Earnings management, Earnings pre-announcements

Do Analysts Sacrifice Forecast Accuracy for Informativeness?

Management Science, Forthcoming
Posted: 16 Sep 2012
Henock Louis, Amy X. Sun and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Analyst forecast informativeness, Forecast accuracy, Earnings management, Management forecasts

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Long-Term Growth in Housing Prices and Stock Returns

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Long-Term Growth in Housing Prices and Stock Returns

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 May 2009 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2011
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston
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Housing prices, Home bias, Stock mispricing, Trading strategy, Economic crisis

Long‐Term Growth in Housing Prices and Stock Returns

Real Estate Economics, Vol. 41, Issue 3, pp. 663-708, 2013
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Sep 2013
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston
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Long-Term Growth in Housing Prices and Stock Returns

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 10 Jul 2011
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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Housing prices, Home bias, Stock mispricing, Trading strategy, Economic crisis

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Perceived Changes in Audit Quality and Firm Value: Evidence From Investors’ Reaction to the Revelation of Limiting Liability Agreements in Audit Engagement Letters

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 May 2019 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2020
Henock Louis, Dahlia Robinson and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of South Florida and University of Houston
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Value of external audits; Liability limiting agreement; Auditor approval

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Abnormal Accruals and Managerial Intent: Evidence from the Timing of Merger Announcements and Completions

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Abnormal Accruals and Managerial Intent: Evidence from the Timing of Merger Announcements and Completions

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2014
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston
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Abnormal accruals, M&A, Earnings management, Managerial opportunism, Investor inattention, Long-run returns, Friday effect

Abnormal Accruals and Managerial Intent: Evidence from the Timing of Merger Announcements and Completions

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 18 Dec 2014
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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M&A, Abnormal accruals, Real earnings management, Managerial opportunism, Investor inattention, Long-run returns, Friday effect

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Employment Protection Legislation and Corporate Performance

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2020
Henock Louis and Oktay Urcan
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Employment protection, Capital expenditures, Operating performance, Earnings management, Consumer spending

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Earnings Announcements and Option Returns

Journal of Empirical Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Dec 2016
Sung Gon Chung and Henock Louis
Wayne State University and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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Earnings Announcement; Option Pricing; Stock Return Volatility

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Minority Lending and the Subprime Foreclosure Crisis

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2013
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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regulations, subprime crisis, foreclosure, minority lending, discrimination, market efficiency

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Are Stock-for-Stock Acquirers of Unlisted Targets Really Less Overvalued?

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Are Stock-for-Stock Acquirers of Unlisted Targets Really Less Overvalued?

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2012
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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M&A, Acquirer performance, Overvaluation, Target listing status

Are Stock-for-Stock Acquirers of Unlisted Targets Really Less Overvalued?

Financial Management (Forthcoming)
Posted: 02 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2012
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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M&A, Acquirer performance, Overvaluation, Target listing status, Insider trading

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Minority Borrowers and the Subprime Foreclosure Crisis: Unintended Consequences of Regulations vs. Unfair Lending

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2013
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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Minority lending, Regulations, Subprime crisis, Discrimination

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Insider Trading, Stock Return Volatility, and the Option Market's Pricing of the Information Content of Insider Trading

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Dec 2016
Chin-Han Chiang, Sung Gon Chung and Henock Louis
Independent, Wayne State University and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
Downloads 144 (238,726)
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Accounting Quality and Alliance Contract Provisions

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Jul 2020
Rui Ge, Yuan Ji and Henock Louis
Shenzhen University - Shenzhen Audencia Business School, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
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Strategic Alliance Contracts; Accounting Quality; Governance Provisions

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Growth in Housing Prices and Long-Term Abnormal Stock Returns

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 22 Feb 2012
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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Housing prices, Home bias, Stock mispricing, Trading strategy

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Mitigating the Negative Market Reaction Associated with Acquisition Announcements by Cash-Rich Firms

Posted: 15 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2012
Henock Louis and Amy X. Sun
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Houston

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excess cash holdings, mixed financing, acquisition, substitution hypothesis, signaling

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Interest Rate Parity and the Behavior of the Bid-Ask Spread

Journal of Financial Research, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 189, Summer 1999
Posted: 07 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 10 May 2010
Henock Louis, Lloyd P. Blenman and Janet S. Thatcher
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte - Department of Finance & Business Law and University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

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Interest rate parity, bid-ask spread, Foreign exchange

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Do Managers Intentionally Use Repurchase Tender Offers to Signal Private Information? Evidence from Firm Financial Reporting Behavior

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Henock Louis and Hal D. White
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business and University of Notre Dame

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Repurchase tender offer, Signaling, Managerial opportunism, Financial reporting

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Acquirers' Abnormal Returns and the Non-Big 4 Auditor Clientele Effect

Posted: 14 Mar 2005
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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Merger, Auditor size, Auditor clientele, Non-audit services, Private target

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The Cost of Using Bank Mergers as Defensive Mechanisms Against Takeover Threats

Posted: 03 Oct 2002
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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Bank, takeover threat, merger, premium, defensive merger

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The Economic Consequences of Firms' Voluntary Submission to Greater External Scrutiny

Posted: 16 Sep 2002
Henock Louis
Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business

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merger, auditing, market efficiency, information asymmetry, disclosure, cost-of-capital, auditor switch, audit quality