The Roles of Institutional Investors and Insiders in Earnings Management around Initial Public Offering Firms in Taiwan

Ming-Feng Hsu and Shiow-Ying Wen
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Ming-Feng Hsu: Department of Banking and Finance, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan,
Shiow-Ying Wen: Department of Industrial and Business Management, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan.

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2015, vol. 5, issue 2, 340-353

Abstract: This paper examines the influence of the proportion and stability of insider's and institutional shareholdings on earnings management after initial public offerings (IPOs) firms in Taiwan, covering data in Taiwan Stock Exchange and GreTai Securities Market from 2000 to 2009. We apply performancematched discretionary accruals (DA) and performance-matched real earnings management as dependent variables to depicting earnings management behavior. The empirical findings show that managers with unstable high shareholdings tend to perform accruals management to fit the threshold in the 2nd year and the 3rd year after IPOs. Further, institutional investors with unstable high shareholdings incline to courage firms to manipulate DA for short-term trading profits in all 3 years after IPOs.

Keywords: Insiders; Institutional Investors; Earnings Management; Initial Public Offering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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