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relative to their expectations. Therefore, the paper analyzes the quality and quantity of management reporting in Germany …
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Firms can disclose social information via different channels such as SEC filings, stand-alone sustainability reports, or financial reports. Based on the notion that investors interpret such disclosures from a risk perspective, we analyse how disclosure via each of the three channels relates to...
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This paper provides early but broad empirical evidence on a major new investor protection regulation in Europe, MiFID II, which requires investment firms to unbundle investment research from other costs they charge to clients. We predict that the price separation resulting from unbundling and a...
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I argue that external financial reporting quality has at best a 2nd order effect on firm value of U.S. publicly traded … companies and that attempts to improve a firm's external reporting quality has a 3rd order effect on these firms' value …. Recognizing that external financial reporting quality is at best a 2nd order effect on firm value imposes an important external …
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We use a novel dataset to examine the across-time consistency and across-firm comparability of firms’ non-GAAP earnings disclosures. We begin by identifying firms that change their non-GAAP earnings definition from one year to the next. These deviations are uncommon, but when managers change...
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This study examines the visibility of the GAAP effective tax rate (ETR) in firms' financial statements as a distinct disclosure choice. Applying a game-theory disclosure model for voluntary disclosure strategies of firms to a tax setting, we argue that firms face a trade-off in their ETR...
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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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Prior research generally argues that managers issue management earnings forecasts (MFs) to secure capital market benefits (i.e., reduce information asymmetry between managers and investors to lower a firm's cost of capital), to reduce the firm's litigation costs, or to allow managers to trade...
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