Accruals Quality, Stock Returns, and Macroeconomic Conditions
- Authors
- Kim, Dongcheol; Qi, Yaxuan
- Issue Date
- 5월-2010
- Publisher
- AMER ACCOUNTING ASSOC
- Keywords
- accruals quality; risk factor models; cross-sectional regression tests; macroeconomic conditions; low-priced returns
- Citation
- ACCOUNTING REVIEW, v.85, no.3, pp.937 - 978
- Indexed
- SSCI
AHCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ACCOUNTING REVIEW
- Volume
- 85
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 937
- End Page
- 978
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/116580
- DOI
- 10.2308/accr.2010.85.3.937
- ISSN
- 0001-4826
- Abstract
- This study examines whether and how earnings quality, measured as accruals quality (AQ), affects the cost of equity capital. Using two-stage cross-sectional regression tests, we find that the AQ risk factor is significantly priced, after controlling for low-priced stocks. This result is robust in tests using individual stocks, various portfolio formations, and different beta estimations. Furthermore, we show that AQ and its pricing effect systematically vary with business cycles and macroeconomic variables. In particular, this pricing effect is prominent in total AQ and innate AQ but not in discretionary AQ. The risk premium associated with AQ exists only in economic expansion but not in recession periods. Poorer AQ firms are more vulnerable to macroeconomic shocks. The risk premium and the dispersion of AQ are also related to future economic activity. Overall, our results suggest that AQ contributes to the cost of equity capital and that its pricing effect is associated with fundamental risk.
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