Religion and Corporate (Mis)Behavior

By Gustavo Grullon, George Kanatas, J. Weston. 2009

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Religion and Stock Price Crash Risk (2012, background): “Most of the findings suggest that religiosity constrains manipulative, and even illegal, managerial behavior in firms.2 Grullon et al. (2010) find that firms located in counties with higher levels of religiosity are less likely to be targets of class action securities lawsuits, engage in backdating…”
The Impact of Religion on Financial Reporting Irregularities (2012, unknown): “counties (Hilary and Hui 2009; Dyreng et al. 2010; Grullon et al. 2010).”
Does Religion Mitigate Tunneling? Evidence from Chinese Buddhism (2014, background): “Overall, the community’s religiosity, as a set of social norms, affects corporate decisions regardless of individual religious beliefs (Dyreng et al. 2012; Grullon et al. 2010; Kennedy and Lawton 1998; McGuire et al. 2012).”
Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Polluting Industries: Does Religion Matter? (2013, background): “…located in more religious places display less risk exposure, engage in fewer financial reporting irregularities, have lower agency costs, and enjoy cheaper equity financing costs (Du 2012; Dyreng et al. 2012; El Ghoul et al. 2012b; Grullon et al. 2010; Hilary and Hui 2009; McGuire et al. 2012).”
Executives' “off-the-job” behavior, corporate culture, and financial reporting risk (2015, background): “Hambrick and Mason's (1984) "Upper Echelons Theory" argues that managerial experiences, values and cognitive styles, such as honesty, affect their choices and consequent corporate decisions.”
Trust and stock price crash risk: evidence from China (2017, background): “(2010), Grullon et al. (2010) , and McGuire et al. (2012) find hat religion also has an impact on firms’ financial reporting qualty.”
Does Religion Matter to Equity Pricing? (2012, unknown): “Besides corroborating Grullon et al. (2010), this evidence lends support to our second hypothesis that the impact of religion on moving firms’ equity pricing closer to the risk-free rate stems largely from Mainline Protestants.”
Where do firms manage earnings? (2012, unknown): “1 Indeed, research on the related phenomenon of accounting method choice dates back to studies such as Watts and Zimmerman (1978), Hagerman and Zmijewski (1979), Bowen, Noreen, and Lacey (1981), and Holthausen (1981). 2 For reviews see Healy and Whalen (1999), Schipper (1999), Dechow and Skinner (20”