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between accounting earnings and stock market value, i.e., earnings relevance. On the one hand, inflation may decrease earnings … relevance as historical cost accounting relies on historical transaction prices that become less relevant when inflation changes …
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How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
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Financial ties between drug companies and medical researchers are thought to bias studies published in medical journals. To enable readers to account for such bias, most medical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest. We examine whether disclosure reduces article...
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-known asset pricing anomalies often attributed to mispricing. EDGAR facilitates easier access to public accounting information …We test and compare the effects of introduction of two new financial information technologies, EDGAR and XBRL, on well … about public firms; XBRL reduces the cost of processing such information. Using stacked difference …
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We examine how sell-side equity analysts strategically disclose information of differing quality to the public versus …-precise information provided to their private clients more valuable. Analysts' say-buy/whisper-sell behavior results in information …
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We document that value-to-price, the ratio of Residual-Income-Model-based valuation to market price, subsumes the power of book-to-market ratio and many other value or quality measures in predicting stock returns. Long-short value-to-price portfolios hedge against momentum, revitalize the...
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The rise of shale gas and tight oil development has triggered a major debate about hydraulic fracturing (HF). In an effort to mitigate risks from HF, especially with respect to water quality, many U.S. states have introduced disclosure mandates for HF wells and fracturing fluids. We use this...
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Account) while following the accounting principles and methods outlined in the SEEA Central Framework (SEEA-CF). This approach … gaps and accounting issues in the US context more specifically …
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, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …, large hierarchical firms with multiple layers of management are at a comparative advantage when information can be …This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment …
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The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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