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Mispricing, Speculation And Real Activities Manipulation, Cristhian R. Mellado-Cid
Mispricing, Speculation And Real Activities Manipulation, Cristhian R. Mellado-Cid
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Real activities manipulation involves changes made by firm’s managers to the normal business operations of the firm and consequently should affect the firm cash flows. Real activities manipulation can reduce firm value because actions taken in the current period to increase earnings can have a negative effect on cash flows in future periods. As such, real activities manipulation should deserve more attention from researchers. First, I attempt to explore the causality relationship between real activities manipulation and firm equity mispricing. Results show that firms with high real activities manipulation have lower level of equity mispricing while firms with high levels …