Measuring distress risk: the effect of R&D intensity

Measuring distress risk: the effect of R&D intensity

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Article ID: iaor2009774
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 62
Issue: 6
Start Page Number: 2931
End Page Number: 2967
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Journal: Journal of Finance
Authors: , ,
Keywords: research, risk, measurement
Abstract:

Because of upward trends in research and development activity, accounting measures of financial distress have become less accurate. We document that (1) higher research and development spending increases the likelihood of misclassifying solvent firms, (2) adjusting for conservative accounting of research and development increases the number of correctly identified distressed firms, and (3) adjusted measures of distress alleviate previously documented anomalously low returns of large, high distress risk, low book-to-market firms. The results hold after updating stale parameters and under various tax assumptions.

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