We conduct an experiment in the securities-based crowdfunding setting to investigate whether some investors avoid accounting information for psychological reasons, even when they understand the information is useful in their decision-making. Results suggest investors who experience relatively...

We conduct two experiments to investigate how the presence of the CEO pay ratio, a recently mandated disclosure, influences nonprofessional investors’ reactions to a CEO’s internal attributions for poor firm performance. Results of our first experiment suggest that relative to blaming...

We conduct two experiments in the securities-based crowdfunding setting to investigate whether, for psychological reasons, some investors avoid accounting information they could and would use in their decision making. We find in our first experiment nonprofessional investors more likely to...

Using data from an information provider in the cannabis industry, we observe that managers of retail dispensaries appear to suffer from the “ostrich effect”—the selective acquisition of news based on an expectation of the likely hedonic response (e.g., avoiding bad news to avoid...

We conduct two experiments to examine how investors react to nonverbal cues of certainty as displayed by a CEO communicating forward-looking information via the relatively new and emerging medium of video. Results of the first experiment suggest that, at least for the setting we examine,...

I examine how firm-investor communications on social media affect investors' perceptions of the firm. I focus on a case in which a Twitter user criticizes a discretionary accrual adjustment and management chooses whether and how to respond. I collect data using multiple experiments in which I...

In this paper, we investigate whether the current references to probability in standard setters' conceptual definitions of assets and liabilities cause individuals to believe that the probability of a future transfer of economic benefits must be above some meaningful threshold for an asset or a...

Coletti, Sedatole, and Towry (2005) provide seminal evidence that controls can increase trust and cooperation. Garrett, Livingston, and Tayler (2018) replicate and extend Coletti et al. (2005), providing evidence that the results extend to different tasks and to individuals in non-interactive...