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Messod Daniel Beneish

Messod Daniel Beneish

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
32
Citations
11053
World Ranking
2557
National Ranking
1005

Economics and Finance

D-Index
32
Citations
11053
World Ranking
3357
National Ranking
1806

Overview

Messod Daniel Beneish is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans multiple subfields including Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Artificial Intelligence, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main topics Beneish explores include auditing, earnings management, and governance; corporate finance and governance; financial markets and investment strategies; imbalanced data classification techniques; firm innovation and growth; monetary policy and economic impact; and financial distress and bankruptcy prediction.

Frequent publication venues for Beneish's research are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Accounting Review
  • Review of Accounting Studies
  • Review of Financial Economics

Among their recent papers are:

  • The Cost of Fraud Prediction Errors, 2021, The Accounting Review
  • Unpatented Innovation and Merger Synergies, 2021, Review of Accounting Studies
  • The Cost of Fraud Prediction Errors, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Aggregate Financial Misreporting and the Predictability of U.S. Recessions and GDP Growth, 2022, The Accounting Review
  • Unpatented Innovation and Merger Synergies, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Beneish has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Patrick Vorst
  • Campbell R. Harvey
  • Ayung Tseng
  • David Farber
  • Matthew Glendening

Best Publications

  • Detecting GAAP violation: implications for assessing earnings management among firms with extreme financial performance

    Messod D. Beneish

  • Earnings management: a perspective

    Messod D. Beneish

  • The Detection of Earnings Manipulation

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  • Incentives and Penalties Related to Earnings Overstatements that Violate GAAP

    Messod D. Beneish

  • Internal Control Weaknesses and Information Uncertainty

    Messod Daniel Beneish;Mary Brooke Billings;Leslie D. Hodder

  • Insider Trading, Earnings Quality, and Accrual Mispricing

    Messod D. Beneish;Mark E. Vargus

  • Costs of technical violation of accounting-based debt covenants

    Eric Press;Messod D. Beneish

  • An Anatomy of the “S&P Game”: The Effects of Changing the Rules

    Messod D. Beneish;Robert E. Whaley

  • The resolution of technical default

    Messod D. Beneish;Eric Press

  • Earnings Manipulation and Expected Returns

    Messod D. Beneish;Charles M.C. Lee;D. Craig Nichols

  • Stock Prices and the Dissemination of Analysts' Recommendation

    Messod D. Beneish

  • Information Costs and Liquidity Effects from Changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average List

    Messod D. Beneish;John C. Gardner

  • Whisper forecasts of quarterly earnings per share

    Mark Bagnoli;Messod D. Beneish;Susan G. Watts

  • Contextual Fundamental Analysis Through the Prediction of Extreme Returns

    Messod D. Beneish;Charles M. C. Lee;Robin L. Tarpley

  • Insider Trading, Earnings Quality, and Accrual Mispricing

    Mark E. Vargus;Messod Daniel Beneish

  • In short supply: Short-sellers and stock returns

    M.D. Beneish;C.M.C. Lee;D.C. Nichols

  • Discussion of “Are Accruals during Initial Public Offerings Opportunistic?”

    M. D. Beneish

  • Information friction and investor home bias: A perspective on the effect of global IFRS adoption on the extent of equity home bias

    Messod D. Beneish;Teri Lombardi Yohn

  • Macroeconomic evidence on the impact of mandatory IFRS adoption on equity and debt markets

    Messod D. Beneish;Brian P. Miller;Teri Lombardi Yohn

  • Insider Trading and Earnings Management in Distressed Firms

    Messod D. Beneish;Eric Press;Mark E. Vargus

  • In short supply: Equity Overvaluation and Short Selling

    M. D. Beneish;C. M. C. Lee;D. C. Nichols

  • Stock prices and the dissemination of analysts' recommendations

    M. Beneish

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles M.C. Lee
Charles M.C. Lee Stanford University
Campbell R. Harvey
Campbell R. Harvey Duke University
Robert E. Whaley
Robert E. Whaley Vanderbilt University

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