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Many insurers disclose Embedded Value reports, a 'capital market-consistent' valuation framework for their life insurance business, to provide investors with additional information. We examine the incremental and relative information content of Embedded Value components in comparison to the...
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This paper examines both the materiality of intangibles and the related disclosure quality under IFRS in the notes of firms on the German benchmark stock index DAX during the four-year period 2008-2011. As proxies, we use the relation of intangibles-to-equity (materiality) and a disclosure index...
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setting, we investigate how financial reporting transparency affects industry coordination. Economic theory predicts that … behavior between 1980 and 2010. Using reporting under internationally recognized accounting standards (IFRS or U.S. GAAP) as … our measure of reporting transparency, we find that following a transparent accounting framework decreases cartel duration …
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This paper examines how news items released throughout the previous quarter help investors predict and understand earnings. It focuses on how earnings aggregates transactions and how this aggregation may lead to information loss. Through the disclosure of these news items that reveal these...
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Analyzing public and private US commercial banks, we document a discontinuity around the 10% regulatory capital ratio. This threshold separates well capitalized from adequately capitalized banks, granting benefits to banks that fall into the former category. We find that the significance and...
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tax-audit risk, financial-reporting benefits, and non-tax costs (which affect pre-tax income). The comparative statics …
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This paper examines the determinants of the difference between soccer player registration transfer fees and the estimated inherent value of transferred players. The results show that this difference increases for players competing in the same league as that of the acquiring team, players...
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for financial reporting …
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statement quality by providing insights to the reporting environment at an (as of yet) unexamined, underdeveloped stock market … of Georgia and obtains a particular weight on the country's way towards harmonizing its reporting standards with the … picture of Georgian reporting environment by taking its financial, legal, political, and accounting systems into consideration …
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High oil prices are normally expected to stimulate exploration and the development of new oil and gas fields. But over the last few years, financial analysts have focused strongly on shortterm accounting return (RoACE) for benchmarking and valuation, and this has led to high capital discipline...
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