Idiosyncratic Return Volatility and the Information Quality Underlying Managerial Discretion

Changling Chen, Alan Guoming Huang and Ranjini Jha

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2012, vol. 47, issue 4, 873-899

Abstract: Variation in idiosyncratic return volatility from 1978 to 2009 is attributable to discretionary accrual volatility and the correlation between premanaged earnings and discretionary accruals reflective of information quality across firms. These results are robust to controls for firm operating uncertainty, growth options, business-cycle variations, and firm age and industry effects, and they highlight the importance of managerial discretion in determining idiosyncratic volatility.

Date: 2012
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