Despite the prevalence of IR among firms and its role as the functional area dedicated to financial communications, we know little about the relationship between IR and financial reporting quality. This paper examines the earnings management choices of firms with a professional IR presence. I...

We examine whether financial analysts—sophisticated market participants—are subject to limited attention. We find that when analysts have another firm in their coverage portfolio announcing earnings on the same day as the sample firm (a “concurrent announcement”), they are less likely to...

This paper examines the real effects of weather on firm performance, using temperature as our proxy for weather. The relation between temperature and performance depends on season, industry, geographic location, and is often firm-specific. Therefore, to test this relation we adapt a measure of...

The accounting literature has used the midpoint of range forecasts in various research settings, assuming that the midpoint is the best proxy for managers' earnings expectations revealed in range forecasts. We argue that given managers' asymmetric loss functions regarding earnings surprises,...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we capture neural activity in the ventral striatum — a key area in the human brain's reward processing circuit — of 35 adult investors learning the earnings per share disclosed by 60 publicly traded companies. Before imaging, investors forecasted...