Shareholder litigation risk and real earnings management: a causal inference

Business & Economics

• Litigation Risk 100%
• Real Earnings Management 99%
• Causal Inference 95%
• Shareholders 57%
• Corporate Governance 50%
• Litigation 38%
• Investors 19%
• Endogeneity 14%
• Misbehavior 11%
• Quasi-experiment 10%
• Corporate Governance Mechanisms 9%
• Information Environment 9%
• Asymmetry of Information 9%
• Investment Behavior 9%
• Management Techniques 8%
• Conditioning 8%
• Difference-in-differences 8%
• Earnings Management 8%
• Monitoring 6%
• Design Methodology 3%