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This study examines the effect of the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on … frequency of management earnings forecasts following mandatory IFRS adoption, consistent with the notion that IFRS adoption …-adoption. We then propose and test three channels through which IFRS adoption could alter firms' disclosure incentives: improved …
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This paper seeks to explore whether voluntary disclosure level affects the value relevance of accounting information from an investor's perspective on Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE). Based on the assumption that an increased focus on the informational needs of investors should increase the value...
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This study examines the impact of voluntary environmental disclosure on the cost of equity capital and firm value, and on the public perception about a firm's environmental performance. A salient feature of the study is that our analysis controls for corporate environmental performance using...
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This paper examines the economic benefits associated with textual attributes and the external assurance of integrated reporting (IR), an innovative form of corporate disclosure that connects financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) information in a single report. We investigate...
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We examine the relationship between analyst research and corporate earnings announcements to explore the relative importance of information discovery versus interpretation of previously released information. Using equity market reaction to capture information content, we find that information...
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I show that, consistent with theory, the volume of business transactions increases during good economic states relative to bad (Veldkamp 2005). As more transactions are aggregated in financial reports, the precision of the macroeconomic signal in aggregated accounting information increases, so...
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This article offers a survey of theoretical research on disclosure and the cost of capital. We summarize the current state of the literature and discuss the channels through which information affects the cost of capital. After giving an overview of asset pricing theory, we examine the rationale...
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