investigates the effect of such governance reforms in ID requirement on the long-run performance of IPOs. Our results, based on 494 … better than those before 2002. Moreover, firms with IDs also experience less negative stock performance than those without …-listing stock performance for IPOs after 2002. -- corporate governance ; independent directors ; initial public offerings …

Disclosure of private medical information allows insurance companies to better predict medical expenditures. The … disclose their medical information. I find that healthier employees prefer to disclose medical information that results in a … and the employee turnover rate is high, it makes the incentive to disclose (or conceal) information stronger and the …

external funding.We find that information is only valuable if enough quality of it is disclosed. Otherwise, the entrepreneur …

In a relatively recent paper, Gehrig and Stenbacka (Eur Econ Rev 51, 77–99, 2007) show that information sharing … case and show that, when the economy suffers from strong adverse selection, information sharing still increases banks …

, more transparency does indeed make sense. However, this is not necessarily the case when it comes to product information … information could in fact restrict the effective functioning of the markets. -- certification ; bribery ; reputation …

, the focus is on empirical test of signaling theory. This theory says that the payment of dividends provides information … operating characteristics (return, performance and earning). Therefore, linear regression models were fitted. Results showed … dividend and earning. It means that dividend has information content about return and earning and so, signaling theory was …