Corporate investment and changes in GAAP

This paper investigates whether changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) affect corporate investment decisions. Using a sample containing forty nine changes in GAAP, I find that changes in accounting rules affect investment decisions. I then examine two mechanisms through which cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shroff, Nemit
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107959
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3472-5443