Earnings Management and Delisting Risk of Initial Public Offerings
Simon School, University of Rochester, Research Paper Series
AAA 2008 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper
56 Pages Posted: 2 Oct 2005 Last revised: 17 Apr 2023
Date Written: March 1, 2006
Abstract
Earnings management is a corporate decision subject to costs. Both earnings management in the IPO process and the ex ante delisting risk of newly issued firms are related to firm fundamentals. With a sample of IPOs from 1980 to 1999, we find that the degree of earnings management possesses significant predictive power on IPO failure. IPO firms associated with aggressive earnings management are more likely to delist for performance failure, and tend to delist sooner. Furthermore, we find that IPO firms associated with conservative earnings management are more likely to be merged or acquired and they earn positive abnormal returns. Our results also show that IPO issuers manage earnings in response to market demand. Market-wide earnings management of IPO firms interacts with the IPO cycle documented by Lowry and Schwert (2002).
Keywords: Earnings management, delisting rate, life expectancy, IPOs
JEL Classification: G24, G32, M41, M43
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