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We study how the social transmission of public news influences investors' beliefs and securities markets. Using an extensive dataset to measure investor social networks, we find that earnings announcements from firms in higher-centrality locations generate stronger immediate price and trading...
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An exclusive focus on bottom-line income misses important information about the quality of earnings. Accruals (the difference between accounting earnings and cash flow) are reliably, negatively associated with future stock returns. Earnings increases that are accompanied by high accruals,...
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in a Chinese "star analyst" competition. We find that managers are more likely to vote for analysts who exhibit more "say …
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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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predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at import-competing firms, but boosts wages at exporting firms. Similarly …, a fall in input tariffs raises wages at import-using firms relative to those at firms that only source locally. Using …
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We study strategic disclosure timing by correlated firms in the presence of risk-averse investors. Firms delay disclosures in the hope that positively correlated firms will announce especially good news and lift their own price. Risk premia rise before disclosures, drop when disclosures occur,...
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. However, when P ≫ T , the RFF-based forecast becomes a weighted average of the T training sample returns, with weights … training windows, similarity primarily reflects temporal proximity, so the forecast reduces to a recency-weighted average of …
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Did regulatory reforms that lowered barriers to competition among U.S. banks increase or decrease the quality of … information that banks disclose to the public and regulators? We find that an intensification of competition reduced abnormal … competition reduces bank opacity, enhancing the ability of markets and regulators to monitor banks …
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Using micro data from Duke University quarterly survey of Chief Financial Officers, we show that corporate investment plans as well as actual investment are well explained by CFOs' expectations of earnings growth. The information in expectations data is not subsumed by traditional variables,...
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have occurred in pricing, service, and competition in the 28 years since deregulation. We then examine some of the major … public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the sustainability of competition and volatility of airline profits, (b …
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