Title:	Accounting and litigation risk: evidencefrom Directors’ and Officers’ insurance pricing
Authors:	Zhiyan Cao, Ganapathi S. Narayanamoorthy
Keywords:	Financial reporting quality Accounting restatements Directors’and Officers’ insurance Litigation risk D&O Corporate governance
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Description:	In this article, we document that variation in D&O insurance premiums is associated with financial reporting quality after controlling for a firm’s corporate governance risk, PSLRA risk, and business risk. Our study makes three main contributions. First, we extend prior literature on the relation between accounting restatements and litigation by showing that restatements are perceived as indicative of chronic accounting problems. Second, we show that three different dimensions of accounting quality are all priced by D&O insurers, suggesting that no single measure, by itself, captures all the effects of financial reporting quality on litigation risk. Third, we present new empirical evidence regarding the effects of corporate governance and business risk on D&O insurance pricing.
URI:	http://196.189.45.87:8080/handle/123456789/105026
Appears in Collections:	Accounting and Finance

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