stock, importance to local communities or high biodiversity value. The HCSA distinguishes high carbon stock forests from degraded lands that may be developed. High Conservation Value: Biological

A String of Earnings Increases, Future Earnings Uncertainty, and Firm Fundamentals* Sarayut Rueangsuwan † Kasetsart University, Thailand August 2015 Abstract Prior literature on meeting or beating earnings benchmarks extensively documents that market rewards firms reporting a string of consecutively earnings increases. To date, it is still unclear what an earnings string really means. This paper empirically provides rational explanations for this phenomenon by investigating whether the increment...

Our evidence supports Pratoomsuwan (2017)’s finding that the Big 4 has great market power in Thailand. However, we add to evidence that each Big 4 somewhat differentiates itself from each other to

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