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Using a large sample of U.S. firms over the period 1964–2007, we find that conditional conservatism is associated with the lower likelihood of a firm's future stock price crashes. This finding holds for multiple measures of conditional conservatism and crash risk and it is robust to...
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By employing two alternative measures of fundamental value, we re-examine the value relevance of accounting information …). Overall, we do not find evidence that there is a loss over time in the value relevance of accounting information with respect …
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quality of accounting information (or “accounting quality”) is one such information imperfection that is associated with cross …-sectional variation in stock price delay. We define accounting quality as the precision with which financial reports convey information to … equity investors about the firm's expected cash flows. Poor accounting quality is likely associated with higher expected …
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We test the hypotheses that (i) poor accounting quality is associated with delayed stock price adjustment to … information, and (ii) the accounting quality component of price delay predicts stock returns. We define accounting quality as the … results suggest poor accounting quality is associated with less timely price adjustment and higher future stock returns …
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We examine whether option prices correct for predictable bias in stock prices associated with accounting anomalies … stock prices. Further analysis suggests that high costs of trading options — implied volatility premiums and transaction …
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liquidity and volatility. We extend the empirical research by the identification of FTT announcement and short-run treatment … effects, which may distort difference-in-differences estimates. In addition, we account not only for the intraday volatility … but also for long-term volatility measures. While we find strong evidence for a positive FTT announcement effect on …
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We study conference calls as a voluntary disclosure channel and create a proxy for the time horizon that senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary...
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Information processing filters out the noise in data but it takes time. Hence, low precision signals are available before high precision signals. We analyze how this feature affects asset price informativeness when investors can acquire signals of increasing precision over time about the payoff...
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greatest impediment to market efficiency. We also find that the impact of idiosyncratic volatility on the Vo/P anomaly is more …
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High-frequency trading has become a dominant force in the U.S. capital market, accounting for over 70% of dollar … trading volume. This study examines the implication of high-frequency trading for stock price volatility and price discovery …. I find that high-frequency trading is positively correlated with stock price volatility after controlling for firm …
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