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Market competition, earnings management, and persistence in accounting profitability around the world, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, Gwen Yu, January 14, 2014 , Paper. "We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, as well as earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more product and capital market competition, as predicted by economic theory..." Link