of central bank communication has increased over time. Employing readability measures as proxy variables, we find that …

The readability of scientific texts is critical for the successful distribution of research findings. I replicate a …, and study two established indicators of readability over time, namely the Flesch Reading Ease and the New Dale …–Chall Readability Formula. I find a modest trend towards less readable abstracts, which leads to an increase in articles that are …

, the role of readability seems to be still neglected in accounting practice. Readability concerns become even more relevant …’s mother tongue. With this study we set out to experimentally investigate the effects of report readability and choosing either … were able to show that a low level of readability significantly reduces the willingness to accept beneficial risks, a …

differences in the readability indices, neither in the narrative nor linguistic style, comparing the first two years of its …

readable and informative. Past research has shown that high readability is related to more extreme investor judgments of firm … performance. Processing fluency is the prevalent theory to explain this: higher readability increases the investor's subconscious … simultaneously influences investor decision-making, and that it has an interactive effect with readability. When presented with …

display terminal 15̊ and 40̊, below horizontal eye level, were taken up for a visually intensive readability task. An … operating parameters to determine optimum readability performance. The results suggested that performance was better at 15̊ …