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forecast precision, clarity, and verifiability affects the bias, quality, and stock price effects of such forecasts. Many MCFFs … over forecast precision, clarity, and verifiability affects the bias, quality, and stock price effects of such forecasts …
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This study examines the unintended effects of a pre-Reg FD practice that gave a broad group of sophisticated market participants 15-minute earlier access to all corporate press releases than the general public. We find that this priority dissemination practice contributed to 22 percent of the...
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This paper examines the impact of earnings announcements and earnings forecast revisions on stock returns across …-looking earnings announcement information and forward-looking earnings forecast information on the price of equity shares. We analyze … availability and actual or perceived reliability affect this relationship. We find that forward-looking analyst forecast …
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This study examines the effect of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) on information uncertainty in IPO firms. The JOBS Act creates a new category of issuer, the Emerging Growth Company (EGC), and exempts EGCs from several disclosures required for non-EGCs. Our findings are...
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At a time when distrust of corporate management is at an all-time high and the media are increasing their focus on corporate governance, Standard amp; Poor's has published a study that examines the transparency and disclosure (Tamp;D) practices of major public companies around the globe. This...
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Prior studies identify several motives for why firms release management earnings forecasts (MFs). A common feature of such studies is they pool MFs when drawing inferences about a specific motive. By ignoring the heterogeneous rationales managers have to issue MFs, pooling could lead to biased...
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voluntarily disclose management earnings forecasts, and (2) higher forecast disclosure frequencies in periods of bad news. We … provide evidence on how management earnings forecast disclosure differs between the United States (U.S.) and Canada, two … create a far less litigious environment than exists in the U.S. We find a greater frequency of management earnings forecast …
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We examine whether differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP affect forecast accuracy and other measures of analysts … interaction with our superior analyst variable and other information environment characteristics significantly affect forecast … stock recommendations but we find no significant effects on forecast dispersion. We interpret our findings as being …
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