The business media disseminates managers' earnings guidance news more broadly or creates new information content on the guidance (Drake et al. 2014). We hypothesize that the media's information dissemination encourages managers to continue issuing earnings guidance because their intended...

We test predictions that managers issuing voluntary capex guidance learn from analyst feedbackand that this learning enhances investment efficiency and firm performance (Langberg andSivaramakrishnan, 2010). Our findings are consistent with these predictions. First, we find thatmanagers' capex...

We study whether bestowing CEO and chairman duties on one individual affects a board's decision to dismiss an ineffective CEO. The results show that the sensitivity of CEO turnover to firm performance is significantly lower when the CEO and chairman responsibilities are vested in the same...

This study investigates intraday patterns of quarterly return-earnings relations. We find that fourth quarter announcements exhibit a lower earnings response coefficient but a more rapid adjustment to new equilibrium levels of prices and a higher R2 than interim quarter announcements. While...

We study whether bestowing CEO and chairman duties on one individual affects a board's decision to dismiss an ineffective CEO. The results show that the sensitivity of CEO turnover to firm performance is significantly lower when the CEO and chairman responsibilities are vested in the same...

We investigate the effects of missing quarterly earnings benchmarks on the CEO's annual bonus. After controlling for the general pay-for-performance relation, we find a significant incremental adverse effect on CEO annual cash bonuses when the firm's quarterly earnings fall short of the...

Under the assumption that capital markets are imperfect due to transactions costs and investor-manager information asymmetries, internally generated funds should be less costly than funds raised by issuing shares (Myers and Majluf 1984). This suggests that the mix of firms' sources of...

This study investigates intraday patterns of quarterly return-earnings relations. We find that fourth quarter announcements exhibit a lower earnings response coefficient but a more rapid adjustment to new equilibrium levels of prices and a higher R2 than interim quarter announcements. While...