This study models a manager who privately reports earnings to an independent audit committee that, after its own due diligence, modifies the report for public release to investors. The audit committee alters the reporting and valuation dynamics by attempting to remove the manager's reporting...

We characterize firms' aggregate reporting quality in an economy where a rational capital market as well as a regulator discipline firms' reporting choices. When the regulator is resource constrained, multiple aggregate reporting choices are possible in equilibrium. This multiplicity is driven...

This study develops a model to examine how companies' investor relations can impact the dissemination of information and how the dissemination of information affects the time-series behavior of bid-ask spreads. In our model, investors become aware of the information release either directly from...

We investigate the impact of accounting discretion on managers' incentives to invest in innovative projects. Using a theoretical model in which a manager chooses between an innovative and a conventional project, we show that allowing accounting discretion incentivizes the manager to invest in...

In a principal agent setting I show that the trade-off between risk and compensation is not monotonic. It is always beneficial for a company to offer a pay-per-performance contract that entails an additional performance measure that imposes more risk to the agent. The agent benefits from the...

This study examines how institutional investors' cost bases impact takeover offer prices and the likelihood of deal success. We find evidence consistent with the ‘disposition effect' - a reluctance to realize losses. After controlling for pre-bid prices, cost basis has a positive association...

The price reactions to corrective disclosures often serve as a benchmark for settlements in securities class action lawsuits. When the firm bears litigation costs, this benchmark creates a feedback effect that exacerbates the price reaction to news that contradicts managers' earlier reports....

This paper shows that persistent mispricing is consistent with a market that includes ambiguity-averse investors. In particular, ambiguity-averse investors may prefer to trade based on aggregate signals that reduce ambiguity at the cost of a loss in information. Equilibrium prices may therefore...

We use required 8-K filings around major borrowings to shed light on firms' choices of whether to comply with SEC disclosure rules. We first develop a simple model in which the firm weighs the benefit of obscuring the disclosure of an adverse event, against the cost of failing to comply with a...