and managers. Although there are some distinctions of their motivation to engage in earnings management, they determine the information disclosure together. The objective of earnings management is the accounting income disclosed in the external financial reporting. The method of earnings management is realizing the control and adjustment of accounting by using accounting and non-accounting measures that are allowed by GAAP standard. The purpose of earnings management is to maximize the self-interests
Marconi (2010) believes that the role played by the institutional investors propagated the financial crises. Institutional investors, which is both, individual or companies do enjoy the benefits of reduced commission preferential regulations. This is due to their large and professional investments. Institutional investors like the mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds like Magnetar Capital, and Life insurance companies like the AIG and investments trusts contributed to the global financial crises
Market Theory and Behavioural Finance. Efficient Market Theory suggests that in every financial market the flow of information is very efficient and this is reflected in the price of the share at which it is being traded. As we know that the price of the share floating in a market is not only dependent upon the company name printed and the information about the company in the balance sheet and other financial statements available to the public (Baghestani, H., 2009). In fact government and political
The 2007 financial crisis, a “once in a century event” a crisis congruent to The Great Depression, has continued to puzzle scholars and economists alike. A crisis of American origin, had the ability to spread rapidly across the world and affect both developed and emerging market economies simultaneously. It is a trite but no less true observation that a lack of a global system of regulation was a main cause of the inception and contagion of a crisis on a global scale. An analysis of the preceding
1. Background The Financial crisis was triggered in 2006 when US housing market began to crumble as the housing price reached their highest point after years of speculative price increase; many house owners defaulted on their loans, particularly subprime mortgagers (Archarya et al., 2009). Starting in mid-2007, the outburst of US housing bubble in the subprime mortgage leads to the global financial crisis that has been often so called ‘Great Recession’ (Verick and Islam, 2010). Archarya et al
Was the financial catastrophe that hit Ireland from 2008 on an accident or due to mistaken policies? It is natural for economies to experience highs and lows during different periods, often being subject to a boom-bust cycle. The financial catastrophe that hit Ireland from 2008 on, however, was definitely not an accident. A global financial crisis ensued the same year, which would obviously have a negative impact on Ireland - it “contributed very significantly to the [Irish] economy’s current woes”
(2011) stated that bank CEO incentives can't be answerable for the credit crisis, as their incentives appeared to be aligned with their interest of their shareholders. Find no evidence that they performed better (Fahlenbrach and Stulz 2011). Fahlenbrach & Stulz (2011) discover verification that banks with higher shareholder- management incentive alignment, options holdings or through stock executed worse during the financial crisis. They conclude, “This evidence recommends that CEOs took exposures that
were rational. The 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is posited to have originated from the notion that all available information was utilised, causing agents to fail to thoroughly investigate and confirm “the true values of publicly traded securities,” leading to a failure to register the presence of an asset price bubble preceding the GFC (Ball 2009). This essay will use the notions of EMH to determine the extent to which they can explain the Global Financial Crisis using the US as a case
1. Introduction The financial crisis started in the USA because of subprime mortgage crisis in 2007. As a consequence of it, a credit crunch was originated and it quickly spread from the real state sector to other sectors, and furthermore, from USA to other countries. This caused a series of financial and economic crises like the collapse of housing markets in Europe, the global stock markets, global financial systems and markets, along with a lot of large banks and financial institutions, as (Sun
The financial crisis of the first decade of the new millennium, normally referred to as the Global Financial Crisis, is considered by many economists as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the total collapse of large financial institutions as well as the bailout of banks by national governments and downturns in stock markets around the world. In many areas including our own Metropolitan area of Kansas City, Missouri, the housing market also suffered