Conference presentations differ from other voluntary disclosures in that the audience for the disclosure is co-located with managers in a well-defined physical and social setting, or “disclosure milieu.” The milieu affects the degree to which conference participants can update their prior...

Recent changes in technology and the media are causing significant changes in how capital markets assimilate and respond to information. We identify important themes in the disclosure literature and use this as a framework to discuss the conference papers that appear in this volume. These papers...

We examine firm disclosure choice during the initial public offering (IPO) roadshow presentation to examine the informativeness of a management presentation designed to attract investors. While firms must submit a comprehensive registration filing during the IPO, investors convey strong interest...