Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/194636 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
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[Journal:] Cogent Economics & Finance [ISSN:] 2332-2039 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Taylor & Francis [Place:] Abingdon [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-12
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon
Abstract: 
Oil and gas exploration companies (E&Ps) exhibit large variations in earnings due to volatile oil and gas prices. Furthermore, their primary asset, oil and gas reserves, is accumulated through highly risky exploration activities. In contrast, integrated oil and gas companies display lower variability in their earnings due a more diversified asset base. The literature suggests that companies with higher earnings volatility and higher levels of intangibles among their assets should have lower value relevance of accounting information than companies with higher levels of tangible assets on their balance sheets. For that reason, E&P companies should have lower value relevance than integrated companies. Contrary to expectations, we do not find lower value relevance for E&Ps earnings than integrated oil and gas companies. In fact, the results suggest that the presence of supplementary estimates for oil and gas reserves values mitigate the potential problem associated with the presence of intangible assets experienced in other industries.
Subjects: 
company valuation
value-relevance
oil and gas industry
vertical integration
valuation
oil majors
oil integrateds
exploration & production
E&P
JEL: 
M21
M40
G12
Q49
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