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Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting deals with research involving the interaction of finance with accounting, economics and quantitative methods, focused on finance and accounting. The papers published present useful theoretical and methodological results with the support of interesting empirical applications. Purely theoretical and methodological research with the potential for important applications is also published. Besides the traditional high-quality, theoretical and empirical research in finance, the journal also publishes papers dealing with interdisciplinary topics including: financial accounting which uses financial and economic theory and/or methodology; managerial accounting and auditing which use financial and economic theory and/or methodology to deal with internal accounting data and decision making; macro-economics which uses finance theory and/or methodology to analyze fiscal and/or monetary policies; managerial economics which uses financial theory and/or methodology to analyze the decisions of a firm.

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This paper examines the signalling implications of sinking funds and shows that under information asymmetry the sinking fund amortization rate provides a credible signal for the quality of the firm. In a separating equilibrium, better quality firms choose higher sinking fund amortization rates in their bond issues. A latent index model is proposed for testing the hypothesis of sinking fund signalling. Empirical evidence indicates that the sinking fund amortization rate signals the credit quality of the firm.