Prague Economic Papers 2015, 24(6):638-661 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.528

Accounting Accruals and Information Asymmetry in Europe

Antonio Cerqueira1, Claudia Pereira2
1 University of Porto, School of Economics and Management, Porto, Portugal (acerqueira.pt@gmail.com).
2 Center for Studies in Business and Legal Sciences, School of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal (claudial@iscap.ipp.pt).

We investigate whether the positive relation between accounting accruals and information asymmetry documented for U.S. stock markets also holds for European markets, considered as a whole and at the country level. This research is relevant because this relation is likely to be affected by differences in accounting standards used by companies for financial reporting, in the traditional use of the banking system or capital markets for firm financing, in legal systems and cultural environment. We find that in European stock markets discretionary accruals are positively related with the Corwin and Schultz high-low spread estimator used as a proxy for information asymmetry. Our results suggest that the earnings management component of accruals outweighs the informational component, but the significance of the relation varies across countries. Further, such association tends to be stronger for firms with the highest levels of positive discretionary accruals. Consistent with the evidence provided by the authors, our results also suggest that the high-low spread estimator is more efficient than the closing bid-ask spread when analysing the impact of information quality on information asymmetry.

Klíčová slova: Information quality, information asymmetry, high-low spread estimator, discretionary accruals
JEL classification: D80, G14, M41

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Cerqueira, A., & Pereira, C. (2015). Accounting Accruals and Information Asymmetry in Europe. Prague Economic Papers, 24(6), 638-661. doi: 10.18267/j.pep.528
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