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<p>The aim of the article is to examine the influence of institutional investor ownership on real earnings’ management (REM) practices through a meta-regression analysis (MRA) based on a sample of 225 estimations from 19 articles. Some of the available research suggests a mitigating role for institutional investors who can serve as external monitors and thus reduce earnings’ management activities which could have a negative impact on the company’s value. The results obtained from the basic model confirmed neither the hypothesis about the influence of institutional ownership on REM, nor the hypothesis about the existence of a significant publication bias. Using an augmented MRA model conclusions in different areas associated with structural and methodological heterogeneity were drawn. Differences in the impact of institutional ownership on real earnings’ management in different regions of the world, a dependence of the results on different data characteristics and differences in the results depending on whether the article was published in a top journal or not were found.</p>
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The aim of the article is to examine the influence of institutional investor ownership on real earnings’ management (REM) practices through a meta-regression analysis (MRA) based on a sample of 225 estimations from 19 articles. Some of the available research suggests a mitigating role for institutional investors who can serve as external monitors and thus reduce earnings’ management activities which could have a negative impact on the company’s value. The results obtained from the basic model confirmed neither the hypothesis about the influence of institutional ownership on REM, nor the hypothesis about the existence of a significant publication bias. Using an augmented MRA model conclusions in different areas associated with structural and methodological heterogeneity were drawn. Differences in the impact of institutional ownership on real earnings’ management in different regions of the world, a dependence of the results on different data characteristics and differences in the results depending on whether the article was published in a top journal or not were found.

Institutional investors and real earnings management: A meta-analysis

Poznań University of Economics and Business

Economics and Business Review

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The aim of the article is to examine the influence of institutional investor ownership on real earnings’ management (REM) practices through a meta-regression...

Institutional investors and real earnings management: A meta-analysis

Published Online: Jul 18, 2022

Page range: 50 - 79

Received: Feb 02, 2022

Accepted: Jun 25, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2022.2.4

Keywords
real earnings management, institutional ownership, meta-analysis, corporate finance

© 2022 Bartosz Kabaciński et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institutional investors and real earnings management: A meta-analysis

Published Online: Jul 18, 2022

Page range: 50 - 79

Received: Feb 02, 2022

Accepted: Jun 25, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2022.2.4

Keywordsreal earnings management, institutional ownership, meta-analysis, corporate finance

© 2022 Bartosz Kabaciński et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
real earnings management, institutional ownership, meta-analysis, corporate finance