Qiang Kang

Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance

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Predicting Stock Market Returns with Aggregate Discretionary Accruals

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Predicting Stock Market Returns with Aggregate Discretionary Accruals

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Mar 2010
Qiang Kang, Qiao Liu and Rong Qi
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, Peking University - Guanghua School of Management and St. John's University
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Aggregate Discretionary Accruals, Return Predictive Regressions, ICAPM-Motivated Risk Premium Proxies, Managerial Market Timing

Predicting Stock Market Returns with Aggregate Discretionary Accruals

EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Jun 2006
Qiang Kang, Qiao Liu and Rong Qi
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, Peking University - Guanghua School of Management and ING Aeltus Asset Management
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aggregate discretionary accruals, time-varying risk premium, predictive regressions, managerial market timing

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The Limitations of Stock Market Efficiency: Price Informativeness and CEO Turnover

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The Limitations of Stock Market Efficiency: Price Informativeness and CEO Turnover

Review of Finance, 21(1), 2017, 153-200.
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 27 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2021
Lixin Huang, Qiang Kang and Gary B. Gorton
Georgia State University, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Yale School of Management
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Price informativeness; Monitoring; CEO turnover; SOX

The Limitations of Stock Market Efficiency: Price Informativeness and CEO Turnover

NBER Working Paper No. w14944
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 12 May 2009 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
Gary B. Gorton, Lixin Huang and Qiang Kang
Yale School of Management, Georgia State University and Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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Credit Rating Changes and CEO Incentives

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Mar 2007
Qiang Kang and Qiao Liu
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Peking University - Guanghua School of Management
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credit rating changes, CEO incentives, corporate governance

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Not So Lucky Any More: CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms

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Not So Lucky Any More: CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms

AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2009
Qiang Kang and Oscar A. Mitnik
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Inter-American Development Bank
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CEO compensation, CEO turnover, financial distress, lucky grants, bias-corrected matching estimators

Not so Lucky Any More: CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3857
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Dec 2008
Qiang Kang and Oscar A. Mitnik
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Inter-American Development Bank
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CEO compensation, CEO turnover, financial distress, lucky grants, bias-corrected matching estimators

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Negativity Bias, Social Media, and Analyst Forecast Performance *

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2024
Ann Marie Hibbert, Qiang Kang, Alok Kumar and Suchi Mishra
West Virginia University - John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Department of Finance, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, University of Miami - Miami Herbert Business School and Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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social media, Twitter sentiment, earnings forecasts, sell-side analysts, Negativity bias

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Sell-Side Financial Analysts and the CFA Designation Program

Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2018
Qiang Kang, Xi Li and Tie Su
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville - Department of Finance and University of Miami - Department of Finance
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Capital markets, CFA program, Analyst recommendation performance, Analyst career outcome, Occupational certification/licensing

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Equity Ownership in IPO Issuers by Brokerage Firms and Analyst Recommendations

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 May 2023
Qiang Kang, Xi Li, Ronald W. Masulis and Tarun Patel
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville - Department of Finance, University of New South Wales, Sydney and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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sell-side analyst stock recommendations, IPOs, IPO lockups, asymmetric information, conflicts of interest, venture capital, brokerage firms, universal banking

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Corporate Investment: A Structural Assessment

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2010
Qiang Kang, Qiao Liu and Rong Qi
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, Peking University - Guanghua School of Management and St. John's University
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act, investment Euler equation, investment-implied discount rate, corporate governance

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Stock Market Information Production and Executive Incentives

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, pp. 484-498, 2008
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2011
Qiang Kang and Qiao Liu
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Peking University - Guanghua School of Management
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Market microstructure, Pay-performance sensitivity, Probability of informed trading (PIN), Analysts' earnings forecasts

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Cross-Sectional PEG Ratios, Market Equity Premium, and Macroeconomic Activity

25th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2012, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 35(3), 2020, 471-500
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2021
Xiaoquan Jiang and Qiang Kang
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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PEG Ratios; Analysts’ Forecasts; Predicting Market Equity Premium; Predicting Macroeconomic Activity; Out-of-Sample Forecasting

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Heterogeneous Beliefs and Return Volatility Around Seasoned Equity Offerings

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 11 May 2020
Ann Marie Hibbert, Qiang Kang, Alok Kumar and Suchi Mishra
West Virginia University - John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Department of Finance, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, University of Miami - Miami Herbert Business School and Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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Return Volatility; SEOs; Analyst Forecast Dispersion; Trade-based Heterogeneity in Beliefs; Short Selling

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Two Accrual Anomalies: A Dichotomy of Accrual-Return Relations

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2010
Qiang Kang, Qiao Liu and Rong Qi
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance, Peking University - Guanghua School of Management and ING Aeltus Asset Management
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Accrual anomalies, market-wide and firm-specific components of (discretionary) accruals, asset pricing, hedge strategy

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Information, Investment Adjustment, and the Cost of Capital

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017
Lixin Huang and Qiang Kang
Georgia State University and Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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Information Asymmetry; Investment Adjustment; Cost of Capital

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Dynamics of Managerial Power and CEO Compensation in the Course of Corporate Distress: Evidence from 1992 to 2019

Financial Management, forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2021
Sheng Guo, Qiang Kang and Oscar A. Mitnik
Florida International University, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Inter-American Development Bank
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Corporate distress, managerial influence, CEO compensation, CEO turnover, bias-corrected matching estimator

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Can a Risk-Based Factor Generate Momentum?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Mar 2007
Qiang Kang and Canlin Li
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
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Momentum, stock compositions, factor-related component, firm-specific component

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Information-Based Stock Trading, Executive Incentives, and the Principal-Agent Problem

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2010
Qiang Kang and Qiao Liu
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Peking University - Guanghua School of Management
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Risk-incentive tradeoff, endogenous information-based trading, pay-performance sensitivity, adjusted PIN, calibration

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Eliciting Managerial Willingness to Invest: A Revealed-Preference Approach

Journal of Business Research, Volume 155, Part B, January 2023, 113375 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113375
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2022
Qiang Kang and Qiao Liu
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance and Peking University - Guanghua School of Management
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Managerial willingness to invest, investment Euler equation, state antitakeover laws, capital expenditure, acquisitions and R&D

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Business-Cycle Pattern of Asset Returns: A General Equilibrium Explanation

Annals of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Sep 2019
Qiang Kang
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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counter-cyclical variation, capital accumulation, decreasing returns to capital, overlapping-generation model

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Mispricing in Linear Asset Pricing Models

Applied Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Feb 2024
Qiang Kang
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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Mispricing, linear asset pricing model, time-varying risk premium, time-varying beta, momentum, contrarian

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Does Climate-Related Information in Stock Prices Affect Firm Investment?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Feb 2025
Qiang Kang
Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Finance
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return sensitivity to abnormal temperature, stock price informativeness, climate change, firm investment, investment-q sensitivity, investment-cashflow sensitivity