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Using a unique, hand-gathered sample of 893 forward-looking voluntary disclosures by 70 proxy contest firms during 1992–2001, we examine whether managers temporarily alter the frequency and tone of their disclosures during proxy contests. Broadly consistent with the corporate control contest...
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and financial reporting quality, we find a positive association between our board measure for skill and monitoring quality …
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and financial reporting quality, we find a positive association between our board measure for skill and monitoring quality …
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Managerial career concerns could affect firm efficiency through financial reporting quality, but this important link …-der which higher-quality reporting induces the manager to invest more effort. Under these condi-tions, the model is extended to … a setting in which the manager also chooses the quality of financial reporting at some cost. In doing so, the manager …
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Different from prior studies which discussed the relationship between GAAP and pro forma earnings from the informativeness perspective, this study presents a detailed discussion about the importance of presentation arrangements of pro forma disclosures. The results show that managers are able to...
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(ERC), increases when investors' uncertainty about the manager's reporting objectives decreases, as predicted in Fischer … investors' uncertainty about managers' incentives and reporting objectives. Employing a difference-in-differences design and …
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Using the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), we examine whether an exogenously …
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Extant studies provide two additional explanations other than backdating for the abnormal stock returns around CEO option grants – timing of option grants and timing of corporate disclosures. We examine the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), the stock option backdating scandal,...
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I investigate the relation between business press attention and the incidence and properties of managers' voluntary disclosures. Specifically, I examine managers' disclosure responses to a bad news event: material lawsuits against the firm. I posit that managers' disclosure decisions are...
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