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which in turn improves the efficiency of firms' investment decisions. We also identify conditions under which the … planner whose objective is to maximize investment efficiency. Our analysis provides an alternative economic explanation for …
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efficiency. SFAS 131 requires firms to define segments as internally viewed by managers, thereby improving the transparency of … changing segment definitions upon adoption of SFAS 131 experienced an improvement in capital allocation efficiency in internal … capital markets after the adoption of SFAS 131. In addition, I find that the improvement in internal capital market efficiency …
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efficiency. SFAS 131 requires firms to define segments as internally viewed by managers, thereby improving the transparency of … changing segment definitions upon adoption of SFAS 131 experienced an improvement in capital allocation efficiency in internal … capital markets after the adoption of SFAS 131. In addition, I find that the improvement in internal capital market efficiency …
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Survey evidence suggests that managers choosing to provide earnings guidance do so in order to, among other things, dampen share price volatility. Yet, consultants and influential institutions strongly urge managers to cease guidance — citing a lack of evidence that guidance curbs volatility....
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An important role of corporate disclosure is to improve the efficiency of capital allocation, and a key part of this … efficiency. I identify conditions under which the multi-project firm that can perform internal capital allocation withholds more … information than a group of stand-alone firms. Under these conditions, I show that the investment efficiency of the multi …
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efficiency after regulation. Consistent with learning, the lower sensitivity is concentrated in firms with more informed trading …
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This paper investigates the efficiency consequences of firm disclosure. Using accounting and financial data in the … reduces the amount of information learned by firms from market prices, which in turn harms investment efficiency. Our results … indicate that disclosure can negatively affect market efficiency and real investment performance in markets where noise trading …
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Archival studies document an asymmetrically strong market reaction to positive vis-agrave;-vis negative earnings surprises. This finding appears inconsistent with the well-known effect of loss aversion and remains unexplained. I contend that this reaction pattern can arise when investors'...
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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 employ a quasi-natural experiment to examine the effect of investor inattention on firms' voluntary disclosure. While prior research focuses on when managers make mandatory disclosures within a given quarter, we examine whether investor inattention influences what managers voluntarily...
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