Bharat Sarath

Rutgers University

PROFESSOR

94 Rockafeller Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

23

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5,734

TOTAL CITATIONS

50

Scholarly Papers (23)

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Citation 5

Financial Statements Insurance

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Aug 2004
Alex Dontoh, Joshua Ronen and Bharat Sarath
New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting, New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and Rutgers University
Downloads 1,274 (33,043)
Citation 5

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Financial statements, insurance, auditor liability, 1934 Securities Act

Financial Statements Insurance

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/27449
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2008
Alex Dontoh, Joshua Ronen and Bharat Sarath
New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting, New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and Rutgers University
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Financial statements, insurance, auditor liability, 1934 Securities Act

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Citation 43

R&D Reporting Biases and Their Consequences

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Aug 2004
Baruch Lev, Bharat Sarath and Theodore Sougiannis
New York University - Stern School of Business, Rutgers University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
Downloads 1,046 (43,979)
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R&D Accounting, Reporting Biases, Market Valuation, Mispricing

R&D Reporting Biases and Their Consequences

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/27470
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 Oct 2008
Baruch Lev, Bharat Sarath and Theodore Sougiannis
New York University - Stern School of Business, Rutgers University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
Downloads 319 (194,261)
Citation 23

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R&D Reporting Biases and their Consequences

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 2005
Posted: 01 Sep 2005
Baruch Lev, Bharat Sarath and Theodore Sougiannis
New York University - Stern School of Business, Rutgers University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

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R&D Accounting, Reporting Biases, Market Valuation, Mispricing

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Long-Term Trends in Audit Market Shares: Effects of BIG-4 Pricing Strategies or Non BIG-4 Market Power?

2015 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2016
Hua Christine Xin and Bharat Sarath
University of South Alabama and Rutgers University
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BIG-4, Audit Fees, Market Share, Oligopolistic Competition

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Fair Value Accounting, Earnings Management, and the Case of Bargain Purchase Gain

Baruch College Zicklin School of Business Research Paper No. 2018-05-03
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 May 2018 Last Revised: 31 May 2018
Steven B. Lilien, Bharat Sarath and Yan Yan
City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Rutgers University and CUNY Queens College
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bargain purchase gain, ASC 805, fair value measurement, ASC 820, earnings management

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The Dynamics of Belief Formation and Price Momentum

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Feb 2017
Alex Dontoh, Joshua Ronen and Bharat Sarath
New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting, New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and Rutgers University
Downloads 372 (165,811)

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Noisy Rational Expectations, Multi-period model, Price Momentum

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Regulation, Auditor Litigation and Settlements

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
Lakshmana Krishna Moorthy and Bharat Sarath
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business and Rutgers University
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Material Weakness Disclosures and Restatement Announcements

2015 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Dec 2014
Nader Wans, Li He and Bharat Sarath
Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) - Faculty of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) - School of Accountancy and Rutgers University
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Failure to Resolve Uncertainty and Corporate Voluntary Disclosure

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2023
Yushi Wang, Bharat Sarath and Atul Rai
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), Rutgers University and Wichita State University
Downloads 185 (335,176)

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options market; implied volatilities; voluntary disclosure

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Audit Quality in Adverse Selection Markets

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Jan 2016
Bharat Sarath
Rutgers University
Downloads 168 (364,994)
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auditing, markets, adverse selection

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Countering Opportunism in Structuring and Valuing Transactions: The Case of Securitizations

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Apr 2009
Steve Bryan, Steven B. Lilien and Bharat Sarath
Fordham University - School of Business, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy and Rutgers University
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Intended or Unintended Consequences of Business Acquisitions: The Case of Financial Services Institutions

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Jun 2017
Steven B. Lilien, Bharat Sarath and Yan Yan
City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, Rutgers University and CUNY Queens College
Downloads 85 (605,594)
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Financial Institution, Bargain Purchase Gain, ASC 805, Fair Value Measurement, ASC 820, Earnings Management

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Speculative Trading and Price Momentum

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Alex Dontoh, Joshua Ronen and Bharat Sarath
New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Rutgers University
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Rational Expectations, Multiperiod, Speculative Trading

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Geographical Location and Regulatory Oversight – Evidence from China

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 Apr 2022
Qiaoling Fang, Li He, Zhi Jin and Bharat Sarath
Fuzhou University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) - School of Accountancy, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) and Rutgers University
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comment letter, geographical location, regulation, disclosure quality, information environment, capital-market effect

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Speculative Trading and Price Momentum

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Sep 2024
Bharat Sarath, Alex Dontoh and Joshua Ronen
Rutgers University, New York University (NYU) - New York University and New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting
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Rational Expectations Equilibrium, Multiperiod, Market Friction, Liquidity Trading, Speculative Trading

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The Impact of Internal Control Weaknesses on Pension Assumptions Manipulation

2016 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
Seokyoun Hwang and Bharat Sarath
CUNY, College of Staten Island and Rutgers University
Downloads 64 (705,067)

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pension assumptions, discount rate, expected rate of return, earnings management, internal control weaknesses

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Disclosure of Pension Asset Allocation and Expected Rate of Return Management

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 15 Jan 2016
Seokyoun Hwang and Bharat Sarath
CUNY, College of Staten Island and Rutgers University
Downloads 60 (727,462)

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pension assumptions, expected rate of return, earnings management, disclosure, pension asset allocation

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Insurance Structure and Class-Action Settlements

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Apr 2019
Bharat Sarath and James M. McCarrick
Rutgers University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 57 (745,298)

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Class Actions, D&O Insurance, Game Theory

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A Strategic Form of Blackwell's Theorem with an Application to the Principal-Agent Problem

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Mar 2024
Bharat Sarath
Rutgers University
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Blackwell's Theorem, Agency, Decision Theory

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Bold Stock Recommendations: Informative or Worthless?

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 16 Aug 2019
Dan Palmon, Bharat Sarath and Hua Christine Xin
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Accounting & Information Systems, Rutgers University and University of South Alabama

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Bold recommendations, Contra-bold/leading-bold/non-bold recommendations, Financial analysts, Cumulative abnormal returns

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The Dynamics of Belief Formation and Price Momentum

Posted: 03 Feb 2017
Bharat Sarath
Rutgers University

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Noisy Rational Expectations, Multi-period model, Price Momentum

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Public Information Quality with Monopolistic Sellers

Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 16, 1996
Posted: 25 Jan 2016
Bharat Sarath
Rutgers University

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auditing, independence, market

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Limits to Voluntary Disclosure in Efficient Markets

JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING, AUDITING AND FINANCE, Vol 11, No 3, Summer 1996
Posted: 25 Jun 1998
Bharat Sarath and Madhav V. Rajan
Rutgers University and Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

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The Value of Correlated Signals in Agencies

RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol 28 No 1
Posted: 05 Mar 1997
Madhav V. Rajan and Bharat Sarath
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and Rutgers University

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Other Papers (2)

Total Downloads: 165
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Bilateral Incentive Problems and the Financing of Start-Ups

EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Stanley Baiman, Sasson Bar-Yosef and Bharat Sarath
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, Hebrew University and Rutgers University
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Efficient Contracting, Venture Capital, Incentive problems, IPO

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Regulation, Auditor Litigation and Settlements

2016 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Lakshmana Krishna Moorthy and Bharat Sarath
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business and Rutgers University
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Regulation, Auditor Litigation, Settlement