The paper analyzes the risk disclosure quality in the prospectus of IPOs in Germany between 2006 and 2008. Quality of risk information is measured as precision and comprehensibility. The relationship between risk disclosure quality and earnings power is tested.

Israel’s compliance with International Organization of Securities Commissions’ objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation has been assessed. The regulatory regime is well developed and in most respects is comparable with that of major jurisdictions. For the most part, it is...

This paper analyzes a model with many homogeneous agents, whose effort can be allocated to two tasks. One task produces a public good that is an important input for the production of the final output. The other task only affects the agent's own output. We show that, when the public input and the...

Most of the bankruptcy prediction models developed so far have in common that they are based on quantitative data or more precisely financial ratios. However, useful information can be lost when disregarding soft information. In this work, we develop an automated content analysis technique to...

Angesichts der aktuellen US-amerikanischen Bilanzskandale erscheint die Bilanzierung nach US-GAAP den europäischen Regeln unterlegen. Nach Meinung von Dr. Joachim Schindler und Dr. Anne Schurbohm, KPMG, sind die Bilanzierungsstandards der US-GAAP nicht für eine weltweite Anwendung geeignet....

The aim of this article is to show the existence of a relationship between voluntary disclosure via corporate websites and the ex-ante cost of capital of companies listed on the BM&FBovespa. Ordinary least-squares regression equations produced the following results: (a) on average, the companies...

В статье рассмотрены основные противоречия в системе нормативного регулирования налогового учета, определены принципы налоговой системы в целом и налогового...