Religiosity and Earnings Management: International Evidence from the Banking Industry
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Religiosity and Earnings Management: International Evidence from the Banking Industry |h [Elektronische Daten] |c [Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Gerald Lobo, Chong Wang] |
| 520 | 3 | |a Using an international sample of banks, we study how differences in religiosity across countries affect earnings management. Given that religiosity is a major source of morality and ethical behavior, it may reduce excessive risk taking and act as deterrence for earnings manipulations. Therefore, we predict lower earnings management in societies that have higher religiosity. Consistent with expectations, our cross-country analysis indicates that religiosity is negatively related to income-increasing earnings management for loss-avoidance and just-meeting-or-beating prior year's earnings. We also find that religiosity reduces income-increasing earnings management through abnormal loan loss provisions. In additional tests, we document that religiosity increases the information value of bank earnings, with both earnings persistence and cash flow predictability being enhanced by higher religiosity. For the crisis period analysis (i.e., 2007-2009), our evidence shows that banks in countries with higher religiosity exhibit lower probability of reporting asset deterioration and lower probability of having poor performance. | |
| 540 | |a Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 | ||
| 690 | 7 | |a Religion |2 nationallicence | |
| 690 | 7 | |a Ethics |2 nationallicence | |
| 690 | 7 | |a Morality |2 nationallicence | |
| 690 | 7 | |a Earnings management |2 nationallicence | |
| 690 | 7 | |a Earnings benchmarks |2 nationallicence | |
| 690 | 7 | |a Loan loss provisions |2 nationallicence | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Kanagaretnam |D Kiridaran |u Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Lobo |D Gerald |u C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wang |D Chong |u Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA |4 aut | |
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| 950 | |B NATIONALLICENCE |P 700 |E 1- |a Lobo |D Gerald |u C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA |4 aut | ||
| 950 | |B NATIONALLICENCE |P 700 |E 1- |a Wang |D Chong |u Von Allmen School of Accountancy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA |4 aut | ||
| 950 | |B NATIONALLICENCE |P 773 |E 0- |t Journal of Business Ethics |d Springer Netherlands |g 132/2(2015-12-01), 277-296 |x 0167-4544 |q 132:2<277 |1 2015 |2 132 |o 10551 | ||