Charles E. Wasley

Simon School, University of Rochester

Professor, Joseph and Janice Willett Distinguished Scholar

Rochester, NY 14627

United States

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Scholarly Papers (28)

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Citation 389

Performance Matched Discretionary Accrual Measures

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Mar 2001
S.P. Kothari, Andrew J. Leone and Charles E. Wasley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Northwestern University and Simon School, University of Rochester
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Earnings Management, Discretionary Accruals, Performance Matching

Performance Matched Discretionary Accrual Measures

Posted: 10 Mar 2004
S.P. Kothari, Andrew J. Leone and Charles E. Wasley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Northwestern University and Simon School, University of Rochester

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Discretionary accruals, earnings management, performance matching, discretionary-accruals models

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Measuring Real Activity Management

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2020
Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Simon School, University of Rochester and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems
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Real activity management; real earnings management; earnings management; real activity models, test specification, Type I errors, Type II errors, power of the test, meet or beat, earnings benchmarks, model specification

Measuring Real Activity Management

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 17 Aug 2019
Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Simon School, University of Rochester and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems

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real activity management, real earnings management, earnings management, real activity models, test specification, Type I errors, Type II errors, power of the test, meet or beat, earnings benchmarks, model specification

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The Role of Self-Regulation in Corporate Governance: Evidence and Implications from the Netherlands

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Feb 2001
Abe de Jong, Douglas V. DeJong, Gerard Mertens and Charles E. Wasley
Monash University, University of Iowa - Tippie College of Business, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Financial Management and Simon School, University of Rochester
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International economics, financial economics, law and economics, corporate governance

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Influential Observations and Inference in Accounting Research

Simon Business School Working Paper No. FR 14-06
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2017
Andrew J. Leone, Miguel Minutti-Meza and Charles E. Wasley
Northwestern University, University of Miami - Department of Accounting and Simon School, University of Rochester
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Regression-Based Tests of the Market Pricing of Accounting Numbers: The Mishkin Test and Ordinary Least Squares

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Jan 2007
Arthur G. Kraft, Andrew J. Leone and Charles E. Wasley
City University London - Cass Business School, Northwestern University and Simon School, University of Rochester
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Market Mispricing, Market Efficiency, Accounting, OLS

Regression-Based Tests of the Market Pricing of Accounting Numbers: The Mishkin Test and Ordinary Least Squares

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 05 Jun 2007
Arthur G. Kraft, Andrew J. Leone and Charles E. Wasley
City University London - Cass Business School, Northwestern University and Simon School, University of Rochester

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Market Mispricing, Market Efficiency, Accounting, OLS

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Citation 21

Why Do Managers Voluntarily Issue Cash Flow Forecasts?

Simon School Working Paper No. FR 05-04
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Jan 2005
Charles E. Wasley and Joanna S. Wu
Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Voluntary Disclosure, Managment Forecasts, Cash Flow Forecasts

Why Do Managers Voluntarily Issue Cash Flow Forecasts?

Posted: 03 Aug 2010
Charles E. Wasley and Joanna S. Wu
Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School

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Research Design Issues and Related Inference Problems Underlying Tests of the Market Pricing of Accounting Information

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Aug 2004
Arthur G. Kraft, Andrew J. Leone and Charles E. Wasley
City University London - Cass Business School, Northwestern University and Simon School, University of Rochester
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Income Conservatism in the U.S. Technology Sector

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Feb 2004
Uday Chandra, Charles E. Wasley and Gregory B. Waymire
SUNY University at Albany, Simon School, University of Rochester and Emory University - Department of Accounting
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The Joint Effects of Materiality Thresholds and Voluntary Disclosure Incentives on Firms' Disclosure Decisions

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2009
Shane Heitzman, Charles E. Wasley and Jerold L. Zimmerman
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Disclosure, Materiality

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Soft-Talk Management Cash Flow Forecasts: Verifiability, Credibility and Stock Price Effects

Simon School Working Paper No. FR 06-01
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2007
Yan Cao, Charles E. Wasley and Joanna S. Wu
Simon School, University of Rochester, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Forecast verifiability, forecast bias, management cash flow forecasts

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Information Externalities Along the Supply Chain: The Economic Determinants of Suppliers’ Stock Price Reaction to Their Customers’ Earnings Announcements

AAA 2007 Financial Accounting & Reporting Section (FARS) Meeting Paper, UIC College of Business Administration Research Paper No. 10-09
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 May 2010 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2011
Shail Pandit, Shail Pandit, Charles E. Wasley and Tzachi Zach
University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Simon School, University of Rochester and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems
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Information externalities, Information transfers, Customers, Suppliers, Supply Chain

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The Effect of R&D Inputs and Outputs on the Relation Between the Uncertainty of Future Operating Performance and R&D Expenditures

Simon School Working Paper No. FR 09-05
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2010
Shail Pandit, Shail Pandit, Charles E. Wasley and Tzachi Zach
University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Simon School, University of Rochester and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems
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R&D, patents, patent citations

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Private Information Acquisition via FOIA Requests Made to the SEC

The Accounting Review, forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2022
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Simon School, University of Rochester and SUNY at Binghamton - School of Management
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Freedom of Information Act; information acquisition; information search; disclosure; agency costs; proprietary costs; competition; lawsuits

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Commemorating the Fifty-Year Anniversary of Ball and Brown (1968): The Evolution of Capital Market Research over the Past Fifty Years

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Jul 2019
S.P. Kothari and Charles E. Wasley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Simon School, University of Rochester
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Ball and Brown, earnings, earnings-return relation, earnings usefulness, earnings timeliness, asymmetric timeliness, conservatism, association study, event study, information content, value relevance, positive economics, efficient markets hypothesis, market efficiency, post-announcement drift

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Creating Visibility: Voluntary Disclosure by Private Firms Pursuing an Initial Public Offering

Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2023
Michael Dambra, Bryce Schonberger and Charles E. Wasley
SUNY at Buffalo - School of Management, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Simon School, University of Rochester
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voluntary disclosure; initial public offering; press releases; investor conferences; firm visibility; information search; media coverage; path analysis

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Should Management Earnings Guidance be Pooled? Classifying Management Earnings Guidance into Capital Market, Opportunistic, and Disclose or Abstain Rationales: Implications for Research

Simon School Working Paper No. FR 12-03
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2012
Edward Xuejun Li, Charles E. Wasley and Jerold L. Zimmerman
City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Management forecasts, Guidance, Insider trading, Voluntary disclosure

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Illustrating the First Half-Century of Empirical Capital Markets Research in Accounting in Pictures

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 27 Aug 2023
S.P. Kothari, Bryce Schonberger, Charles E. Wasley and Jason J. Xiao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Simon School, University of Rochester and SUNY at Binghamton - School of Management
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capital markets; earnings; stock returns; earnings-return relation; information content; earnings announcements; post-earnings announcement drift; accruals; cash flows; earnings response coefficient; analysts’ earnings forecasts; conservatism; asymmetric timeliness; information content of losses

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The Disclose or Abstain Incentive to Issue Management Guidance

Journal of Law, Finance & Accounting, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, pp.. 187-233, 2016
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 May 2014 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2018
Edward Xuejun Li, Charles E. Wasley and Jerold L. Zimmerman
City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Management forecasts, guidance, insider trading, Rule 10b-5

Economic Determinants of the Decision to Voluntarily Adopt Mark-to-Market Accounting for Pension Gains and Losses

Simon Business School Working Paper No. FR 15-14
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2016
Jaewoo Kim, Charles E. Wasley and Joanna S. Wu
University of Oregon - Department of Accounting, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
Downloads 276 (190,225)
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Accounting Choice, Earnings Management, Pensions, Mark-to-Market Accounting, Fair Value, Income Statement Classification, Non-GAAP Earnings, Macroeconomic Conditions

Economic Determinants of the Decision to Voluntarily Adopt Mark-to-Market Accounting for Pension Gains and Losses

Simon Business School Working Paper No. FR 14-21
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Mar 2015
Jaewoo Kim, Charles E. Wasley and Joanna S. Wu
University of Oregon - Department of Accounting, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Accounting choice; Fair value accounting; Mark-to-market accounting; Pensions; Non-GAAP earnings measures

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Soft-Talk Management Cash Flow Forecasts: Bias, Quality, and Stock Price Effects

Simon School Working Paper No. FR 12-04
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Jan 2012
Michael Dambra, Charles E. Wasley and Joanna S. Wu
SUNY at Buffalo - School of Management, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
Downloads 368 (141,011)
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management forecasts, cash flow forecasts, disclosure

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Intertemporal Variation in the Information Content of Aggregate Earnings and its Effect on the Aggregate Earnings-Return Relation

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2020
Jaewoo Kim, Bryce Schonberger, Charles E. Wasley and Hunter Land
University of Oregon - Department of Accounting, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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aggregate earnings; aggregate earnings-return relation; market returns; real output; industrial production growth; financial sector; fair value accounting

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Voluntary Disclosure and Earnings Asymmetric Timeliness

Simon Business School Working Paper No. FR 16-04
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2019
Michael Dambra, Bryce Schonberger and Charles E. Wasley
SUNY at Buffalo - School of Management, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Simon School, University of Rochester
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asymmetric timeliness of earnings, voluntary disclosure, management earnings forecasts, conservatism

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Forecasting Market Volatility: The Role of Earnings Announcements

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming, 29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting 2018
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2023
University of Oregon - Department of Accounting, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Simon School, University of Rochester and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - School of Accountancy
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stock market volatility; forecasting; earnings announcements; macroeconomic announcements; exponential GARCH; out-of-sample tests

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Commemorating the 50‐Year Anniversary of Ball and Brown (1968): The Evolution of Capital Market Research over the Past 50 Years

Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 57, Issue 5, December 2019
Posted: 09 Mar 2020
S.P. Kothari and Charles E. Wasley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Simon School, University of Rochester

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Ball and Brown; earnings; earnings-return relation; earnings usefulness; earnings timeliness; asymmetric timeliness; conservatism; association study; event study; information content; value relevance; positive economics; efficient markets hypothesis; market efficiency

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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Management Earnings Forecasts

Accounting Horizons, Forthcoming
Posted: 13 May 2010 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2018
Kyonghee Kim, Shail Pandit, Shail Pandit and Charles E. Wasley
Michigan State University, University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago and Simon School, University of Rochester

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Aggregate market uncertainty, macroeconomic uncertainty, market volatility, voluntary disclosure, management earnings forecasts, litigation risk

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The Joint Effects of Materiality Thresholds and Voluntary Disclosure Incentives on Firms’ Disclosure Decisions

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Oct 2009
Shane Heitzman, Charles E. Wasley and Jerold L. Zimmerman
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Simon School, University of Rochester and University of Rochester - Simon Business School

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Disclosure, Materiality

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Stock Price Behavior Associated with Post 1974-75 Lifo Adoptions Announced at Alternative Disclosure Times

JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING, AUDITING, AND FINANCE, Vol 11, No 4, Fall 1996
Posted: 17 Apr 1998
Morton Pincus and Charles E. Wasley
University of California, Irvine and Simon School, University of Rochester

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Estimating Response Coefficients: Pooled Versus Firm-Specific Models

Posted: 15 May 1995
Walter R. Teets and Charles E. Wasley
Gonzaga University and Simon School, University of Rochester

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