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We consider the strategic timing of information releases in a dynamic disclosure model. Because investors don’t know whether or when the firm is informed, the firm will not necessarily disclose immediately. We show that bad market news can trigger the immediate release of information by firms....
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context, Australian sharemarket initial public offerings. This article extends the literature on company forecast risk by … internationalisation) and by refining others. The study investigates the association between earnings forecast risk and conventional ex …-ante uncertainty proxies used to explain IPO underpricing. Ex-ante and ex-post explanatory variables are distinguished and a forecast …
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We show that tests of market efficiency are sensitive to the inclusion of delisting firm-years. When included, trading strategy returns based on anomaly variables can increase (for strategies based on earnings, cash flows and the book-to-market ratio) or decrease (for a strategy based on...
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characteristics. We find that Kandel and Pearson's (1995) forecast measures of differential interpretation are: 1) negatively related …
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The primary question addressed in this study is whether firm-specific ERCs - i.e., slope coefficients obtained from time-series regressions of abnormal returns on earnings surprises - are helpful in predicting price responses to future earnings surprises. Fundamental analysis involves both...
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, accrual firms' investment-financing decisions and insider trading activity are distorted, and analyst forecast optimism is …
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We examine the performance of buy-side analysts relative to that of the sell-side. Our tests show that buy-side analysts at a large investment firm make less optimistic stock recommendations than sell-side analysts, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest. However, their...
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This paper analyses value-investing strategies based on the residual income valuation approach which has become popular due to the work of Ohlson (1995) and Feltham and Ohlson (1995) for the German stock market. Plenty of empirical evidence shows that it is possible to earn positive abnormal...
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Estimates and projections are embedded in most financial statement items. These estimates potentially improve the relevance of financial information by providing managers the means to convey to investors forward-looking, inside information (e.g., on future collections from customers via the bad...
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