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Shivaram Rajgopal
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 168
Citations - 19589
Shivaram Rajgopal is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Earnings & Earnings management. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 151 publications receiving 17577 citations. Previous affiliations of Shivaram Rajgopal include Emory University & University of Minnesota.
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The economic implications of corporate financial reporting
TL;DR: This paper found that the majority of managers would avoid initiating a positive NPV project if it meant falling short of the current quarter's consensus earnings, and more than three-fourths of the surveyed executives would give up economic value in exchange for smooth earnings.
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The Economic Implications of Corporate Financial Reporting
TL;DR: This paper found that the majority of managers would avoid initiating a positive NPV project if it meant falling short of the current quarter's consensus earnings, and more than three-fourths of the surveyed executives would give up economic value in exchange for smooth earnings.
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Earnings quality: Evidence from the field
Ilia D. Dichev,John R. Graham,John R. Graham,Campbell R. Harvey,Campbell R. Harvey,Shivaram Rajgopal +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of CFOs of public companies and interviews with 12 CFO and two standard setters was conducted to understand their views on the quality of their own earnings.
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Empirical evidence on the relation between stock option compensation and risk taking
Shivaram Rajgopal,Terry Shevlin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether executive stock options (ESO) provide managers with incentives to invest in risky projects and find evidence that ESO risk incentives has a positive relation with future exploration risk taking.
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Why is the accrual anomaly not arbitraged away? The role of idiosyncratic risk and transaction costs $
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the accrual anomaly documented by Sloan (1996) is concentrated in firms with high idiosyncratic stock return volatility making it risky for risk-averse arbitrageurs to take positions in stocks with extreme accruals.