The release of the full set of financial statements in Form 10-Q provides investors with the data necessary to estimate the discretionary portion of earnings, thereby allowing them to better assess the integrity of reported quarterly earnings. We thus expect a negative association between...

We investigate whether analysts' common-stock valuation judgments are predictably affected by (1) different methods of accounting for business combinations and (2) the number of years that elapse after the business combinations occur. Numerous articles in the business press suggest that...

This paper documents the value-relevance of nonfinancial information on the quantity and quality of inventive output for high-tech companies. We find that the number of patents and information on the quality of patents have consistently positive effects on stock prices. Interestingly, this...

The relationship between the informational environment and the cost of equity capital has received considerable interest in finance and accounting research as well as in financial reporting regulation. Recent papers have demonstrated that increased public disclosure may decrease firms' cost of...

This paper examines whether the current reporting and disclosure requirements for foreign registrants in the United States affect foreign firms' decisions to list on a U.S. exchange. We find that while firms from a weak disclosure environment are more likely to cross-list and either trade...

This paper examines the impact of management forecasts on short-term stock return volatility. Two measures of volatility are employed: excess intra-day price volatility and the standard deviation of returns. I find that the average management forecast is followed by heightened volatility in the...

This paper identifies cross-sectional factors that motivate the disclosure of forward-looking earnings information and documents that these disclosures impact market prices by quot;pulling forwardquot; future earnings information. We examine a set of firms facing poor current earnings...

This paper examines whether proprietary costs influence privately held firms' financing choice between private placements and public offerings. The financing choice determines whether proprietary information revealed to investors is also available to competitors. Using hand-collected information...

We examine the first significant deregulation of U.S. disclosure requirements since the passage of the 1933/1934 Exchange and Securities Acts: the 2007 SEC Rule 12h-6. Rule 12h-6 has made it easier for foreign firms to deregister with the SEC and thereby terminate their U.S. disclosure...

This paper studies how an accountant's method of aggregating information in a financial report is affected by differences in the reliability and relevance of components of the report. We study a firm that hires an accountant to produce a report that reveals information to investors regarding the...