Information processing filters out the noise in data but it takes time. Hence, low precision signals are available before high precision signals. We analyze how this feature affects asset price informativeness when investors can acquire signals of increasing precision over time about the payoff...

While it is generally maintained that earnings management can occur to inform as well as to mislead, evidence that earnings management informs has been scarce, and evidence that credibility increases with signal costliness inexistent. We provide evidence that firms use discretion over financial...

German Abstract: Das neue Recht hat keine konkrete Regel zur Rechnungslegung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungskosten (F&E-Kosten). Zwar enthält Art. 959 Abs. 2 OR die allgemeinen Bilanzansatzkriterien, doch für ein komplexes Thema wie F&E liefert diese Bestimmung kaum Anhaltspunkte....