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We find evidence that public firm disclosure, in the form of Management Discussion and Analysis (Sections 7 and 7a of annual reports), is more informative about the firm's future risk following the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Employing a novel text regression, we are able to...
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Altamuro and Beatty (2009) examine financial reporting quality before and after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). They document increases in the validity of the loan loss provision, earnings persistence, predictability of future cash flows and reductions in...
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Stock prices are more informative when the information has less social value. Speculators with limited resources making costly (private) information production decisions must decide to produce information about some firms and not others. We show that producing and trading on private information...
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There is a tenuous link between market efficiency and economic efficiency in that stock prices are more informative when the information has less social value. We theoretically and empirically investigate this link in the context of CEO turnover. Our theoretical model predicts that, although the...
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cumulative abnormal returns for all firms disclosing ICW are not significantly different from zero. However, after controlling …
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of accounting quality in Germany. Although prior studies examine changes in accounting quality under SOX Sections 302 and … 404, there is scant evidence of the accounting quality effects of ICRM reform in foreign jurisdictions. Such evidence is … achievement of one of the intended outcomes of ICRM regulationmdash;increased accounting quality through effective ICRM systems …
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This study experimentally examines a random sample of 50 SOX 404 reports issued between 2004 and 2009 to determine their informativeness, as represented by their readability measured by the Fog index and understandability measured by coding errors. We hypothesize that there has been no change in...
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system, the accounting information system, the financial information, and the non-financial information) on decision …
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Stock prices are more informative when the information has less social value. Speculators with limited resources making costly (private) information production decisions must decide to produce information about some firms and not others. We show that producing and trading on private information...
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