This paper investigates whether the use of big data analytics by firms has a spillover effect on management forecasting behavior. Insights provided by big data could potentially improve firms’ ability to forecast earnings (supply channel) and investor demand for earnings information is likely...

This study investigates whether the expanded audit report is informative to investors in the setting of an emerging economy. Using the recent staggered adoption of the expanded audit report for A+H and A share firms in China, we find robust evidence that abnormal trading volume and earnings...

Some firms voluntarily make disclosures about the controls and processes in place to ensure the reliability of fair value estimates. Consistent with these disclosures being driven by investors' concerns about the reliability of their SFAS 157 estimates, we find that firms with more opaque...