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Using a survey-based measure that directly captures beliefs about disclosure quality (SFARS) in a panel with over 1,000 country-year observations, this study examines macro-level capital market consequences of confidence in disclosure quality. Supporting construct validity, SFARS is associated...
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This paper provides a non-traditional review of recent research on the fair value (FV) measurement hierarchy. We begin with a meta-analysis that synthesizes the studies on the value relevance of the FV hierarchy. Overall, we find that the value relevance is lower for level 3 than for levels 1...
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firm does not equal satisfactory transparency for the outside shareholder.However, the implementation of IFRS/IAS 1 in the …
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We present a theory of bank disclosure in which banks face both adverse selection and bank run risk. In our model … inefficient bank runs. We show that the level of disclosure chosen by banks and the associated probability of a run have parallel … behaviors as a function of bank profitability. Moreover, the optimal level of bank disclosure exhibits an inverse-U shape …
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This paper analyzes the role of disclosure enforcement mechanisms (such as SEC enforcement teams and corporate governance systems) in directing the disclosure practices of managers when the information is used by shareholders to monitor the manager. The paper establishes a role for a disclosure...
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This paper reviews the literature examining how costs of monitoring for, acquiring, and analyzing firm disclosures – collectively, “disclosure processing costs” – affect investor information choices, trades, and market outcomes. The existence of disclosure processing costs means that...
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We examine whether managers convey more information via voluntary disclosure channels when standard-setters limit managers' discretion in GAAP. We estimate the extent to which standard setters limit managers' discretion by counting the number of times obligatory modal verbs are mentioned in the...
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I study the information asymmetry effects of SFAS 161, which required changes to the content and format of derivative and hedging footnote disclosures. Using a difference-in-differences design, I investigate whether these mandatory disclosure changes affected bid-ask spreads. To capture the...
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This study investigates how the disclosure of management compensation contracts affects executive behavior by modeling a situation in which both the principal-agent relationship and market interactions are important. We find that making the disclosure of these contracts mandatory creates...
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Using hand-collected data on the level of pension-related mandatory disclosures required by International Accounting Standard 19 Employee Benefits, we test whether compliance levels with these disclosures convey information that affects firms' access to the public instead of the private debt...
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