We identify a new channel – market makers' attention constraints – through which earnings announcements for one stock affect the liquidity of other stocks. When some stocks handled by a designated market maker have earnings announcements, liquidity is lower for non-announcement stocks...

We survey the textual sentiment literature, comparing and contrasting the various information sources, content analysis methods, and empirical models that have been used to date. We summarize the important and influential findings about how textual sentiment impacts on individual, firm-level and...

The article is a discussion to the Libby and Brown’s article: Financial Statement Disaggregation Decisions and Auditors’ Tolerance for Misstatement. The first part of the article describes the original research of the authors, including theoretical base, experiment and its conditions and...

The article deals with the principal-agent theory and its application on provision of the assurance services. It describes influence which the principal-agent theory might have on the quality of information provided by the assurance services. The article defines stakeholders and shareholders of...

This paper provides the first evidence for empirical tests of the effect of rational expectations as well as behavioral biases, including among other animal spirits such as defined by Akerlof and Shiller (2009) on the variability of trading.We have used daily data for five international capital...

A number of studies have used survey data on traders' exchange rate forecasts to examine the role of risk and non-REH forecasting in accounting for excess returns in currency markets. This work re-examines those results using an alternative estimation technique, the Cointegrated VAR, which...

We investigate the validity of purchasing power parity of 7 Middle East countries over January 1980 to August 2008 by applying the stationary test with a nonlinear Fourier function as proposed by Becker et al. (2006). This test allows us to study the presence of unknown smooth structural breaks...

We survey 84 finance and accounting majors to determine the behavioral factors that males and females exhibit when making investment decisions. The survey results are linked to student performance in the Stock-Trak Global Portfolio Trading Simulation. We find that males and females exhibit...

Limits to arbitrage play a central role in behavioral finance. They are thought to interfere with arbitrage processes so that security prices can deviate from true values for extended periods of time. We describe a recent financial innovation that allows limits to arbitrage to be sidestepped,...

Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks'...