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We investigate how the interaction between product market competition and firm-level corporate governance enhances the …
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forecast, this disclosure attenuates this reliance on gender-based stereotypes to inform investment decisions. Finally, we find …
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This paper examines managers’ use of a private disclosure channel to provide early earnings warnings and therefore reduce bad news shocks around public announcements. I ask whether firms are more likely to provide private earnings warnings to analysts when expected shareholder litigation risk...
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Using firm-level data from 23 developed markets, we document a positive association between overall firm-level governance quality and the informativeness of earnings announcements measured by abnormal stock return variance. This finding is robust after controlling for the potential endogeneity...
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This study examines the influence of managerial power on analysts' earnings forecast accuracy. CEO/Chairperson duality … that have been shown to affect analysts' forecast accuracy in prior literature, this study indicates that managerial power … is positively associated with analysts' earnings forecast errors for large firms, but not for small firms. The non …
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This paper investigates empirically the effect of ownership concentration on corporate disclosure choice in Bangladesh. In an environment of weak enforceability of laws, corporate culture in Bangladesh is characterized by family control and concentrated ownership. Controlling shareholders...
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This paper shows that non-compliance with the mandatory disclosure requirements is pervasive in Bangladesh. This is contrasted with the observation that audit opinion is often unqualified. Given that accounting standards and disclosure rules are weakly enforceable, corporate disclosure practice...
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This paper examines the effect of family ownership on firm voluntary disclosure and the associated capital market consequences. I use a randomly assigned family trait, the gender of the firstborn child of the firm's family owner, as an instrumental variable and find that family ownership of a...
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This paper investigates whether and how financial restatements affect the market for corporate control. We show that firms that recently filed financial restatements are significantly less likely to become takeover targets than a propensity score-matched sample of non-restating firms. For those...
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