Prior literature finds that long-lasting changes in firms' disclosure policies and information environment affect the cost of equity. Information asymmetry, however, also changes during the fiscal quarter. Firms disclose information periodically, and in between disclosure dates traders can...

We test the influence of classification of securities into liabilities and equity on firms' financing choices, using as our setting the change in reporting classification of hybrid securities following SFAS 150. We find that this change affected the decision of firms to issue mandatorily...

Prior studies find that markets fail to quickly and fully impound accruals information into prices. This paper compares the information environment and pricing of firms that voluntarily disclose accruals in their earnings press releases (Disclosers) to those of control firms that disclose the...

Though ample empirical evidence alludes to the importance of disaggregated accounting data in the context of earnings management, extant accounting theory considers biases in reporting earnings mostly at the aggregated level of the reported earnings. By analyzing reporting manipulations at the...

This study examines investor reaction to return on common equity (ROCE) and its components around the announcement of quarterly earnings. It is an issue that the accounting literature has not examined, notwithstanding the importance of ratio analysis in general and the DuPont decomposition in...

It is widely agreed that corporate financial reports provide deficient information about intangible assets. However, investors are exposed to substantial information beyond financial reports, such as managers' direct communications to capital markets and analysts' reports. We ask: To what extent...

The study examines the value-relevance of reported financial information of fast-changing science-based companies and the incremental value-relevance of publicly available nonfinancial information. Based on a sample of independent cellular phone companies we find that on a stand-alone basis...

Most agree that value-relevance and timeliness are two important and desirable attributes of financial information. In this study, we examine the value-relevance and timeliness of financial information under different information regimes: distinct trading mechanisms and different levels of...

We use pension asset allocation data to examine the relation between the expected long-term rate of return (ERR) on pension assets and the amount of funds allocated by fund managers to equity securities. If firms use their best estimate of the ERR, then cross-sectional differences in the ERR...