Vivek Raval

Author: ravalv

  • The risk relevance of restructuring

    The most recent version of my paper. Abstract: This study investigates the degree to which restructuring expense reveals systematic risk. Restructuring expense includes costs of employee termination and relocation, and therefore it provides information about when and to what degree the firm is reducing an important factor of production, labor. Firms reduce labor when they…

  • FARS 2024 Discussion

    My discussion of “Managerial myopia and the effect of investment growth on equity value” is below. The paper was written by Paul Irvine, Shin Kwon, and Steven Lim. It was a privilege to have the opportunity to discuss it.

  • CFEA 2023: The risk relevance of restructuring

    My presentation for the CFEA conference at Rutgers University on November 4, 2023.

  • Syllabus, 2023

    Largely the same as 2022, but with some additional points for ALEKS and more clarity on the grading.

  • AAA discussions 2023

    These are my discussions from the AAA Annual Meeting. The first is “Establishment-level life cycle and analysts’ forecasts” by Sudipta Basu, Xin Dai, and Caroline Lee: Establishment-Level Life Cycle Discussion The second is “The bright side of career concern: CEO tenure and narrative disclosure complexity” by Marwa Soliman: CEO Tenure Discussion