Philip R. Brown

UWA Business School, M250

Emeritus Professor

Crawley, Western Australia 6009

Australia

Financial Research Network (FIRN)

C/- University of Queensland Business School

St Lucia, 4071 Brisbane

Queensland

Australia

http://www.firn.org.au

  • UWA Business School, M250

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1.

Ball and Brown (1968): A Retrospective

FIRN Research Paper, Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2014
Ray Ball and Philip R. Brown
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and UWA Business School, M250
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Ball-Brown, earnings, usefulness, timeliness, anomalies, event study

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Mandatory Adoption of IFRS and Analysts’ Forecasts: How Much Does Enforcement Matter?

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2009 ACCT 01
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
John P. Preiato, Philip R. Brown and Ann Tarca
The University of Western Australia, UWA Business School, M250 and University of Western Australia
Downloads 1,624 (19,447)
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IInternational Financial Reporting Standards, IFRS, Analyst Forecast Accuracy, Enforcement of Accounting Standards, Audit Fees, Regulation, Rule of Law

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Choice between Alternative Routes to Go Public: Backdoor Listing versus IPO

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Jul 2011
Philip R. Brown, Andrew Ferguson and Peter Lam
UWA Business School, M250, Department of Accounting, UTS and University of Technology, Sydney - Discipline of Accounting
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IPO, backdoor listing, going public, reverse takeover

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Agency Conflicts and Corporate Payout Policies: A Global Study

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Agency Conflicts and Corporate Payout Policies: A Global Study

WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 91
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Söhnke M. Bartram, Philip R. Brown, Janice C. Y. How and Peter Verhoeven
University of Warwick, UWA Business School, M250, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland University of Technology - QUT Business School
Downloads 834 (50,229)
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Dividends, share repurchases, agency costs, payout choice

Agency Conflicts and Corporate Payout Policies: A Global Study

WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 118
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Söhnke M. Bartram, Philip R. Brown, Janice C. Y. How and Peter Verhoeven
University of Warwick, UWA Business School, M250, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland University of Technology - QUT Business School
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Dividends, share repurchases, agency costs, payout choice

Agency Conflicts and Corporate Payout Policies: A Global Study

WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 119
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Söhnke M. Bartram, Philip R. Brown, Janice C. Y. How and Peter Verhoeven
University of Warwick, UWA Business School, M250, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland University of Technology - QUT Business School
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Dividends, share repurchases, agency costs, payout choice

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Ball and Brown (1968) After Fifty Years

“Ball and Brown (1968) after 50 years.” Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 53 (2019) 410–431. doi: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2018.12.008
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Jan 2019
Ray Ball and Philip R. Brown
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and UWA Business School, M250
Downloads 1,220 (29,792)
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anomaly, Ball and Brown (1968), earnings, EPS, event study, market efficiency, PEAD, replication, research design, stock returns, timeliness, value relevance

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Measuring Country Differences in Enforcement of Accounting Standards: An Audit and Enforcement Proxy

FIRN Research Paper
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2014
Philip R. Brown, John P. Preiato and Ann Tarca
UWA Business School, M250, The University of Western Australia and University of Western Australia
Downloads 1,024 (38,319)
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security market regulation, external audit, IFRS, compliance, enforcement, accounting quality

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Identifying Decision Useful Information With the Matrix Format Income Statement

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Feb 2007
Ann Tarca, Philip R. Brown, Phil Hancock, David R. Woodliff, Michael E. Bradbury and Tony van Zijl
University of Western Australia, UWA Business School, M250, University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, Independent and Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Commerce and Administration
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comprehensive income, matrix income statement, performance reporting, IASB

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An Investigation of Compliance With International Accounting Standards by Listed Companies in the Gulf Co-Operation Council Member States

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Feb 2007
Bader Al-Shammari, Philip R. Brown and Ann Tarca
Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), UWA Business School, M250 and University of Western Australia
Downloads 951 (42,553)
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International Accounting Standards (IAS), compliance, audit, enforcement, Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) member states

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The Reach of the Disposition Effect: Large Sample Evidence Across Investor Classes

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Mar 2002
Philip R. Brown, Nick Chappel, Raymond da Silva Rosa and Terry S. Walter
UWA Business School, M250, University of Sydney Business School, The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance and University of Sydney
Downloads 932 (43,725)
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Disposition effect, behavioural finance, tax-loss selling, house-money effect, prospect theory

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Corporate Governance and Transparency in Japan

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2020
Hiroyuki Aman, Wendy Beekes and Philip R. Brown
Kwansei Gakuin University, Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance and UWA Business School, M250
Downloads 759 (57,837)
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Corporate Governance; Transparency; Disclosures; Price Discovery; Timeliness

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The Information Value of the Annual Earnings Report

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Aug 2012
Ray Ball and Philip R. Brown
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and UWA Business School, M250
Downloads 695 (64,981)
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Earnings, Share prices, Event Study

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Do Better-Governed Australian Firms Make More Informative Disclosures?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Feb 2005
Wendy Beekes and Philip R. Brown
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance and UWA Business School, M250
Downloads 588 (80,228)
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Corporate governance quality, Disclosure frequency, Analysts' forecasts, Price discovery, Timeliness

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What’s in a Shell? Analysing the Gain to Shareholders from Reverse Takeovers

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Jul 2011
Philip R. Brown, Andrew Ferguson and Peter Lam
UWA Business School, M250, Department of Accounting, UTS and University of Technology, Sydney - Discipline of Accounting
Downloads 577 (82,068)
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reverse takeover, reverse merger, backdoor listing, shell premium

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On the Timeliness of Price Discovery

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Oct 2006
Wendy Beekes and Philip R. Brown
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance and UWA Business School, M250
Downloads 572 (83,031)
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information timeliness, price discovery

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Corporate Governance, Companies’ Disclosure Practices, and Market Transparency: A Cross Country Study

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2015
Wendy Beekes, Philip R. Brown, Wenwen Zhan and Qiyu Zhang
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, UWA Business School, M250, Lancaster University and Lancaster University Management School
Downloads 506 (96,702)
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Corporate Governance, Disclosure Practices, Market Transparency, Legal Origin, Timeliness of Price Discovery

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Achieving High Quality, Comparable Financial Reporting: A Comparison of Independent Enforcement Bodies in Australia and the United Kingdom

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 Apr 2005
Ann Tarca and Philip R. Brown
University of Western Australia and UWA Business School, M250
Downloads 495 (99,303)

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Financial reporting regulation, enforcement, Australian Securities and Investment Commission, ASIC, Financial Reporting Review Panel, FRRP

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Analysts' Dividend Forecasts

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jun 2002
Alex Clarke, Philip R. Brown, Janice C. Y. How and Kadir J.P. Lim
The University of Western Australia - Department of Accounting and Finance, UWA Business School, M250, Queensland University of Technology and Curtin University - School of Economics and Finance
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security analysts, dividends, earnings, forecasts, accuracy, bias

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Do Better-Governed Firms Make More Informative Disclosures? Canadian Evidence

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Feb 2006
Wendy Beekes, Philip R. Brown and Germaine Chin
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, UWA Business School, M250 and The University of Western Australia - Faculty of Economics & Commerce
Downloads 426 (118,621)
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Corporate governance quality, Disclosure frequency, Analysts' forecasts, Price discovery, Timeliness

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Culture and Stock Price Clustering: Evidence from the Peoples' Republic of China

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Oct 2004
Jason D. Mitchell and Philip R. Brown
Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy and UWA Business School, M250
Downloads 412 (123,304)
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Stock price clustering, number preferences, feng shui, Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

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Measures of the Timeliness of Earnings

Australian Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2011
Philip R. Brown, Glen Dobbie and Andrew B. Jackson
UWA Business School, M250, affiliation not provided to SSRN and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Accounting
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Timeliness, Price Discovery, Conservatism

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The Accuracy of Analysts' Dividend Forecasts Around the World

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Jul 2008
Philip R. Brown, Janice C. Y. How and Peter Verhoeven
UWA Business School, M250, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland University of Technology - QUT Business School
Downloads 389 (131,704)
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analyst dividend forecasts, dividend policy, earnings predictability, world

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The Effects of Corporate Governance on Information Disclosure, Timeliness and Market Participants’ Expectations

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2016
Wendy Beekes, Philip R. Brown, Germaine Chin and Qiyu Zhang
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, UWA Business School, M250, The University of Western Australia - Faculty of Economics & Commerce and Lancaster University Management School
Downloads 371 (138,840)
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corporate governance, disclosure frequency, analysts’ forecasts, price discovery, timeliness

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A Comparison of Between-Country Measures of Legal Setting and Enforcement of Accounting Standards

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 24 Apr 2014
John P. Preiato, Philip R. Brown and Ann Tarca
The University of Western Australia, UWA Business School, M250 and University of Western Australia
Downloads 360 (143,528)
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legal system, enforcement of accounting standards; auditors; regulation; rule of law; International Financial Reporting Standards; IFRS; analysts’ forecasts; forecast error; forecast dispersion

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Corporate Governance and the Long-Run Performance of Firms Issuing Seasoned Equity: An Australian Study

22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2010
Philip R. Brown, Michael Lee, Sian A. Owen and Terry S. Walter
UWA Business School, M250, affiliation not provided to SSRN, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Banking and Finance and University of Sydney
Downloads 270 (194,246)
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Corporate governance, seasoned equity issue, long-run underperformance

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Financial Integration and the Transparency of Firms in Emerging Capital Markets

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2014
Qiyu Zhang, Wendy Beekes and Philip R. Brown
Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance and UWA Business School, M250
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Financial integration; transparency; emerging markets

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Corporate Governance and the Informativeness of Disclosures in Australia: A Re-Examination

Forthcoming in Accounting and Finance
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2014
Wendy Beekes, Philip R. Brown and Qiyu Zhang
Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, UWA Business School, M250 and Lancaster University Management School
Downloads 112 (414,512)
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Corporate governance, Disclosures, Price discovery, Timeliness, Transparency

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Investors’ Order Placement Strategies Around the Time of a Market Sensitive Announcement

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Dec 2012
Marvin Wee, Marvin Wee and Philip R. Brown
Australian National University (ANU)Financial Research Network (FIRN) and UWA Business School, M250
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Market sensitive announcements, Order Flow, Price Impact, Event Studies, Trading Behaviour

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The Interaction of Retail Order Placement with Transient Volatility

22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Aug 2009
Philip R. Brown, Marvin Wee and Marvin Wee
UWA Business School, M250 and Australian National University (ANU)Financial Research Network (FIRN)
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Institutional and retail traders, Order placement, Transient Volatility

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Market Reactions to the Reports of a Star Resource Analyst

Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2014, FIRN Research Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2014
Philip R. Brown, Alexey Feigin and Andrew Ferguson
UWA Business School, M250, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) - School of Accounting and Department of Accounting, UTS
Downloads 73 (544,517)
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detecting abnormal market behavior, gold, extractive industries, market microstructure, specialist, star analyst

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A Commentary on Issues Relating to the Enforcement of International Financial Reporting Standards in the EU

Posted: 16 Mar 2005
Ann Tarca and Philip R. Brown
University of Western Australia and UWA Business School, M250

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Enforcement, Compliance, Regulatory oversight in the European Union (EU), Financial reporting regulation, International financial reporting standards, IFRS

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Future Disclosures

Posted: 19 Apr 2000
Philip R. Brown
UWA Business School, M250

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The Impact of Statutory Sanctions on the Level and Information Content of Voluntary Corporate Disclosure

Posted: 18 Jul 1998
Philip R. Brown, Stephen L. Taylor and Terry S. Walter
UWA Business School, M250, University of Technology Sydney and University of Sydney

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