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We examine the role of concurrent information in the striking increase in investor response to earnings announcements from 2001 to 2016, as measured by return variability and volume following Beaver (1968). We find management guidance, analyst forecasts, and disaggregated financial statement...
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This study investigates whether financial data providers serve as information intermediaries in capital markets. To this end, I examine whether the timeliness of earnings information disseminated by First Call (Thomson Reuters) affects the market's reaction to earnings announcements. I document...
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This analysis identifies a distinct immediate announcement period negative relation between earnings announcement surprises and aggregate market returns. Such a relation implies that market participants use earnings information in forming expectations about expected aggregate discount rates and,...
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Signalling theory posits that the most profitable companies provide the market with more and better information. The research, however, reveals disaccording results. Because the general disclosure level depends on many factors, our paper centres on a focal point of the signal that companies send...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of financial factors on earnings management and earnings quality. Moreover, the study examines the role of earnings management as a mediator in the effect of the financial factors on earnings quality. It provides some empirical evidences from an...
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Despite broad interest in analysts' activities, our understanding of sell-side analysts as a collective group is limited. This paper examines changes in the scope of the sell-side analyst industry and whether these changes impact information dissemination. Changes in the number of analysts...
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An analysis of about 300000 earnings forecasts, created by 18000 individual forecasters for earnings of over 300 S&P listed firms, shows that these forecasts are predictable to a large extent using a statistical model that includes publicly available information. When we focus on the...
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Aufgrund der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Informations- und Kommunikations- Technologien in der Finanzindustrie nimmt auch das Volumen unstrukturierter und entscheidungsrelevanter Textdaten zu, welche von Marktteilnehmern analysiert werden. In diesem Umfeld erhöhter Datengeschwindigkeit und...
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