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1.

Corporate Governance and the Cost of Equity Capital

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Feb 2005
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins and Ryan LaFond
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting and Algert Global, LLC
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The Information Role of Conservatism

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The Information Role of Conservatism

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Aug 2006
Ryan LaFond and Ross L. Watts
Algert Global, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Conservatism, Accounting Standards, Earnings Management, Corporate Governance, Securities Litigation

The Information Role of Conservatism

Accounting Review, 2008
Posted: 19 Sep 2007
Ryan LaFond and Ross L. Watts
Algert Global, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Conservatism, Accounting Standards, Earnings Management, Corporate Governance, Securities Litigation

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The Effect of SOX Internal Control Deficiencies on Firm Risk and Cost of Equity

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming 2008
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2008
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins, William R. Kinney Jr. and Ryan LaFond
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting and Algert Global, LLC
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Firm risk, Cost of Equity

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The Market Pricing of Earnings Quality

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Jun 2003
Jennifer Francis, Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper
Duke University, Algert Global, LLC, Duke University and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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costs of capital, earnings quality

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Do Non-Audit Services Compromise Auditor Independence? Further Evidence

Unversity of Wisconsin Working paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Apr 2002
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Ryan LaFond and Brian W. Mayhew
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, Algert Global, LLC and University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Accounting and Information Systems
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independence, audit fees, discretionary accruals, biased financial reporting

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Costs of Capital and Earnings Attributes

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Jun 2003
Jennifer Francis, Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper
Duke University, Algert Global, LLC, Duke University and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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cost of capital, earnings quality, persistence, predictability, smoothness, value relevance, timeliness, conservatism

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The Effects of Corporate Governance on Firms' Credit Ratings

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Mar 2004
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins and Ryan LaFond
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting and Algert Global, LLC
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Corporate governance, Credit rating, Executive compensation

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Managerial Ownership and Accounting Conservatism

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 12 Sep 2006
Ryan LaFond and Sugata Roychowdhury
Algert Global, LLC and Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
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accounting conservatism, conservatism, managerial ownership, CEO ownership, agency costs, agency problems

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Does Stock Price Synchronicity Represent Firm-Specific Information? The International Evidence

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4551-05
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Joachim Gassen and Ryan LaFond
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, Humboldt University of Berlin - School of Business and Economics and Algert Global, LLC
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The Effect of SOX Internal Control Deficiencies and Their Remediation on Accrual Quality

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Daniel W. Collins, William R. Kinney Jr. and Ryan LaFond
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, University of Iowa - Department of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting and Algert Global, LLC
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accrual quality, internal control, auditing

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Accounting Anomalies and Information Uncertainty

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 Jun 2003
Jennifer Francis, Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper
Duke University, Algert Global, LLC, Duke University and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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anomalies, information uncertainty, earnings quality

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Earnings Quality and the Pricing Effects of Earnings Patterns

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Jennifer Francis, Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper
Duke University, Algert Global, LLC, Duke University and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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earnings patterns, earnings quality

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Is the Accrual Anomaly a Global Anomaly?

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4555-05
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Aug 2005
Ryan LaFond
Algert Global, LLC
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Earnings Smoothing, Governance and Liquidity: International Evidence

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Mar 2007
Ryan LaFond, Mark H. Lang and Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife
Algert Global, LLC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis
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earnings smoothing, earnings management, liquidity, accounting quality, governance

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A Pitfall in Ethical Investing: ESG Disclosures Reveal Vulnerabilities, Not Virtues

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Sep 2016
Gerald T. Garvey, Joshua Kazdin, Joanna Nash, Ryan LaFond and Hussein Safa
Blackrock, BlackRock, Inc, BlackRock, Inc - San Francisco, Algert Global, LLC and BlackRock, Inc - San Francisco
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Social Responsibility; Controversies

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act, Bank Internal Controls and Financial Reporting Quality

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 49, Nos. 1-2, 2010
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2012
Ryan LaFond and Haifeng You
Algert Global, LLC and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Accounting
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FDICIA, Internal Control, Financial Reporting Quality

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Do Nonaudit Services Compromise Auditor Independence? Further Evidence

Posted: 31 Mar 2003
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, Ryan LaFond and Brian W. Mayhew
Graduate School of Management, UC-Davis, Algert Global, LLC and University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Accounting and Information Systems

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independence, audit fees, discretionary accruals, biased financial reporting