This paper examines how financial statement comparability varies between firms in the
mature stage of their life cycle and firms in other life cycle stages. We hypothesize that …

We apply machine learning to accommodate the nonlinearities that prevented Nissim and
Penman (NP, 2001) from estimating their framework. We obtain more accurate out-of …

This dissertation examines how industry and firm life cycle fundamentals affect and
determine future firm performance. The three empirical studies broaden our understanding …

Since long there has been a great interest in the importance and role of accounting
information (Ball and Brown 1968; Kothari and Wasley 2019). Accounting information, and …

In this study, we investigate the existence and informational value of life cycle-wide and firm-
specific earnings, and examine the extent to which these components are reflected in stock …