“…Consistent with this ‘earnings fixation’ hypothesis, many studies find evidence of mispricing of accruals, particularly for the least persistent and least reliable components (e.g., Green, Hand, & Soliman, ; Hirshleifer, Hou, & Teoh, ; Momente, Reggiani, & Richardson, ; Richardson, Sloan, Soliman, & Tuna, ; Xie, ). However, other studies find that exposure to a risk factor explains a large part of the accruals anomaly and interpret this as evidence of rational pricing (e.g., Chichernea, Holder, & Petkevich, ; Guo & Maio, ; Khan, ).…”