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We inform the policy debate on whether management earnings guidance fosters managerial myopia by examining whether firms providing earnings guidance exhibit less firm innovation. At the core of the debate is whether guidance impedes long-term value creation, and evidence on the association...
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styles affect their perceived credibility, then the stock price reaction to forecast news should increase with managers …' prior forecasting accuracy. Consistent with this prediction, I find that the stock price reaction to management forecast …
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We examine the disclosure choice faced by managers when a previously-issued earnings forecast becomes inaccurate. In … some cases, managers explicitly update the forecast with a revised earnings estimate, while in other cases, managers … withdraw the original forecast without providing an update. We find that the latter choice, unexplored in prior research, has …
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We study the market's reaction to the disclosure of non-GAAP earnings measures that are combined with high impression management. We construct an impression management score that captures several communication techniques that managers often use to positively bias investors' perceptions of firm's...
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We compare non-GAAP EPS in annual earnings announcements and proxy statements using hand-collected data from SEC filings. We find that proxies for capital market incentives (contracting incentives) are more highly associated with disclosure of non-GAAP EPS in annual earnings announcements (proxy...
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We examine whether firms with greater financial statement complexity are more likely to meet or beat analysts' earnings expectations. We proxy for financial statement complexity using the firm's industry and year adjusted accounting policy disclosure length. Firms with more complex financial...
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earnings announcement disclosures as a measure of commitment. In settings characterized by imperfect market competition, I find … competition). In particular, my results suggest that consistency and timeliness are salient features of firms' disclosure behavior … underlying information quality; however, consistent with theory, it is conditional on low levels of market competition …
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We conduct two experiments to investigate how investors react to attributions accompanying management guidance. In our first experiment, we investigate the joint effect of attribution locus (external versus internal attribution) and guidance-news valence (positive versus negative guidance news)...
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more likely among firms: (1) in high technology industries; (2) reporting losses; (3) with larger forecast errors; (4 …
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This paper examines managers’ use of a private disclosure channel to provide early earnings warnings and therefore reduce bad news shocks around public announcements. I ask whether firms are more likely to provide private earnings warnings to analysts when expected shareholder litigation risk...
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