The purpose of this paper is to examine determinants of financial information disclosure by Tunisian companies. The methodology is based on qualitative approach, using the cognitive mapping technique. To take into account the specificities of the Tunisian economic, we felt that it is essential...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of intellectual capital (IC) disclosure of the largest Czech and Hungarian listed firms. We apply content analysis of the annual statements and measure IC disclosure by a score. We hypothesize that a significant positive relationship exists...

This paper examines the effect of Korea’s fair disclosure regulation on the timeliness and informativeness of earnings announcements. The present regulation for Korean listed firms requires that if a company's sales revenue, operating income (or loss) and net income (or loss) have changed by...

The purpose of this paper is to examine determinants of financial information disclosure by Tunisian companies. The methodology is based on qualitative approach, using the cognitive mapping technique. To take into account the specificities of the Tunisian economic, we felt that it is essential...

This paper deals with the impact of voluntary strategy disclosure in management reports on the cost of equity capital. Such an impact is not obvious, as investors might consider strategy information as “cheap talk” and therefore ignore it. We analyze a sample of 100 German listed firms from...

This study investigates the relationship between the tone of financial disclosures and managers' earnings management behavior using Form 20-F filings of Chinese firms listed in the U.S. during 2002-2014. The results show that the proportion of positive, uncertain, or modal words used in...

This paper investigates whether risk-related disclosure, which includes aggregate risk disclosure and its tone, including upside and downside risk disclosures, is value relevant for investors in the UK market. Based on 1941 firm-year observations for nonfinancial firms listed on the FTSE...

By extracting detailed birth information for managers of Chinese listed firms from 2011 to 2021, we developed a novel measure of overconfidence and applied it to the corporate information disclosure. Our findings demonstrated a close association between managerial overconfidence and both...

This study investigates board characteristics, including board leadership structure, which explain the human capital disclosure (HCD) provided by companies. It uses a self-constructed disclosure index to quantify the level of human capital information using content analysis. Generalized method...