... confirmed by post-estimation techniques. Findings The study confirms that the COVID-19 contagion has adversely influenced the stock returns of SAARC countries. The findings signify that the pattern of cointegration has significantly different regularities in the pattern of causality in the long run...

... Earnings management Resilience Income smoothing Contagion Financial network Network fragility We explore earnings management among interconnected firms to provide insights on how firms might manage earnings when they are interconnected by networks. By interconnections, we mean firms...