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We find that bidders are more likely to hold conference calls at merger announcements when the mergers are financed … associated with more favorable market reactions to merger announcements. A content analysis of merger-related information … conference calls are positively associated with pre-merger announcement abnormal accruals. Overall, the results suggest that …
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The SEC's emphasis on the use of plain English is designed to make disclosures more readable and more informative. Using an experiment, I find that more readable disclosures lead to stronger reactions from small investors, so that changes in valuation judgments are more positive when news is...
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Most large companies voluntarily disclose information about their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. We use experimental markets to examine how managers' disclosures of a particular type of CSR, green investment, affect investors' bidding behavior. We find that, although in our...
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This paper examines the relation between voluntary disclosure of financial statement line items accompanying, and insider trading around, quarterly earnings announcements. We find that investors' reaction to positive earnings news is temporarily heightened by financial statement line items...
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We investigate the association between disclosures about key value drivers (i.e., growth, synergies, human capital, brands, customers and technology) in press releases announcing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals and acquirer stock returns upon the announcement. We find that, after...
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We investigate a pervasive voluntary disclosure practice -- managers including balance sheets with quarterly earnings announcements. Consistent with expectations, we find that managers voluntarily disclose balance sheets when current earnings are relatively less informative, or when future...
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Why does the market react to companies’ announcements of strategic alternatives with a +5.2 percent return, only to experience a future return of -9.7 percent? We find evidence consistent with a mispricing explanation in that: (i) investors and analysts are overly optimistic about a potential...
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We examine whether the level of trust in a country affects investors' perception and utilization of information transmitted by firms through financial disclosure. Specifically, we investigate the effect of societal trust on investor reactions to corporate earnings announcements. We test two...
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This paper uses holdings and outage data from Robinhood and transaction-level data from U.S. exchanges to examine how retail investors affect the pricing of public earnings information. We find that retail trader activity is associated with prices that are more responsive to earnings surprises,...
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This study examines whether PCAOB inspection reports succeed in providing a meaningful signal of audit quality. We find a statistically and economically significant market response to the issuances of 224 first-round and 134 second-round inspection reports between January 2005 and March 2010,...
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