Catherine M. Schrand

University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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Understanding Earnings Quality: A Review of the Proxies, Their Determinants and Their Consequences

Number of pages: 164 Posted: 10 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2011
Patricia Dechow, Weili Ge and Catherine M. Schrand
USC Marshall School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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earnings quality, accruals, earnings persistence, earnings response coefficient

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Executive Overconfidence and the Slippery Slope to Financial Misreporting

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Executive Overconfidence and the Slippery Slope to Financial Misreporting

AAA 2009 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 08-25
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2011
Catherine M. Schrand and Sarah L. C. Zechman
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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executive overconfidence, fraud, earnings mangement, corporate governance

Executive Overconfidence and the Slippery Slope to Financial Misreporting

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 31 Aug 2011
Catherine M. Schrand and Sarah L. C. Zechman
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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executive overconfidence, fraud, earnings management, corporate governance

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Information Disclosure and Adverse Selection Explanations for IPO Underpricing

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Jun 2002
Catherine M. Schrand and Robert E. Verrecchia
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Disclosure, initial public offerings, cost of capital

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Why Firms Use Currency Derivatives

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Why Firms Use Currency Derivatives

WP No. 96-4
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Nov 1996
Christopher Geczy, Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Why Firms Use Currency Derivatives

J. OF FINANCE, Vol. 52 No. 4, September 1997
Posted: 17 Jul 1997
Christopher Geczy, Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms' Response to the Enron Shock

Chicago Booth School of Business Research Paper No. 08-26
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 23 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 03 May 2018
Christian Leuz and Catherine M. Schrand
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Transparency, Disclosure, Cost of capital, Capital-market shocks, Financial crisis, Annual reports, Accounting scandals

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Choices Among Alternative Risk Management Strategies: Evidence from the Natural Gas Industry

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 15 Jan 2000
Christopher Geczy, Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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The Impact of Cash Flow Volatility on Discretionary Investment and the Costs of Debt and Equity Financing

Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics Working Paper No. 98-10
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Oct 1998
Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Do Managers Tacitly Collude to Withhold Industry-Wide Bad News?

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 13-12
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2014
Jonathan L. Rogers, Catherine M. Schrand and Sarah L. C. Zechman
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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voluntary disclosure, collusion, readability

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Earnings Management and its Pricing Implications: Evidence from Banks' Adjustments to the Valuation Allowance for Deferred Tax Assets Under SFAS 109

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jul 2000
Catherine M. Schrand and M.H. Franco Wong
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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Taking a View: Corporate Speculation, Governance and Compensation

Journal of Finance, Volume 62, Issue 5, October 2007
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
Christopher Geczy, Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Speculation, Compensation, Governance

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Strategic Disclosure as an Explanation for Asymmetric Return Volatility

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Apr 2004
Jonathan L. Rogers, Catherine M. Schrand and Robert E. Verrecchia
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Strategic disclosure, bad news, disclosure thresholds, leverage effect

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Discretionary Reporting of Earnings Components

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Feb 1998
Catherine M. Schrand and Beverly R. Walther
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Northwestern University - Department of Accounting Information & Management
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Analyst Recommendations and Stock Price Bubbles

Journal of Financial Reporting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2019
Karthik Balakrishnan, Catherine M. Schrand and Rahul Vashishtha
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Duke University
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Public information, Analyst recommendations, Mispricing, Technology Bubble, Higher Order Beliefs, Rational Speculation

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Firm-Sector Comovement and Disclosure: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 19 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 25 May 2023
Stella Y. Park, Catherine M. Schrand and Frank Zhou
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Comovement; Disclosure; Capex forecasts; Information processing; Informed trading

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What ESG-Related Disclosures Should the SEC Mandate?

Karpoff, Jonathan M. and Litan, Robert and Schrand, Catherine M. and Weil, Roman L., What ESG-Related Disclosures Should the SEC Mandate? (24 March 2022). Financial Analysts Journal, 2022, 78(2): 9-18. DOI: 10.1080/0015198X.2022.2044718. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4019614
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 21 May 2022
Jonathan M. Karpoff, Robert Litan, Catherine M. Schrand and Roman L. Weil
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Brookings Institution, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Chicago - Accounting
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Securities and Exchange Commission, ESG, reporting requirements

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The Impact of Currency Risk on US MNCs: Evidence from Currency Crises

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2012
Kathryn L. Dewenter, Catherine M. Schrand and Clare Wang
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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Currency risk, currency exposure, cross-border investment

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Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms' Responses to the Enron Shock

NBER Working Paper No. w14897
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 20 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2022
Christian Leuz and Catherine M. Schrand
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Institutional Investments in Pure Play Stocks and Implications for Hedging Decisions

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming, Charles A. Dice Working Paper No. 2016-3, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2016-03-03
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Feb 2016
Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Pure play stocks, institutional investors’ preferences, industry exposure, hedging

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The Use of Multiple Risk Management Strategies: Evidence from the Natural Gas Industry

Journal of Risk, Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 2006
Posted: 11 May 2006
Christopher Geczy, Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Finance Department, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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natural gas pipelines, time-series patterns, pipline companies, gas storage, cash holdings, line-of-business, derivatives

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Earnings Management Using the Valuation Allowance for Deferred Tax Assets Under SFAS 109

Posted: 22 Jul 2003
Catherine M. Schrand and M.H. Franco Wong
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

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Earnings management, deferred taxes, discretion, banks

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Does Cash Flow Volatility Affect Firm Value? Its Impact on Discretionary Investment and the Costs of Debt and Equity Financing

Dice Center Working Paper 98-3
Posted: 11 Aug 1998
Bernadette A. Minton and Catherine M. Schrand
Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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Hedging and Coordinated Risk Management: Evidence from Thrift Conversions

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Hedging and Coordinated Risk Management: Evidence from Thrift Conversions

96-05
Posted: 03 Jul 1998
Catherine M. Schrand and Haluk Unal
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

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Hedging and Coordinated Risk Management: Evidence from Thrift Conversions

Posted: 03 Jul 1998
Catherine M. Schrand and Haluk Unal
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

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The Effect of Accounting-Based Debt Covenants on Equity Valuation

Posted: 22 Sep 1997
John E. Core and Catherine M. Schrand
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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The Association between Stock-Price Interest Rate Sensitivity and Disclosures About Derivative Instruments

ACCOUNTING REVIEW, Vol 72, No 1, January 1997
Posted: 11 Sep 1996
Catherine M. Schrand
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department

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