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New media have markedly enhanced individuals' capacity to produce and disseminate original knowledge; however, the literature has not extensively examined the broad effects of such decentralized production processes. The current study thus focuses on a unique context — the stock market — in...
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disadvantages of their choices to keep implementing IFRS in Indonesia. …This is the first study to explore the impact of Indonesia's adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards … (IFRS) on information flow and stock price informativeness throughout the pre-IFRS (2007-2011), transition (2012-2014), and …
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Management, directly or indirectly, learns from its firm's stock price, so that a more informative stock price should make the firm more productive. We show that stock price informativeness increases firm productivity. We predict and confirm that the productivity of smaller and younger firms,...
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The literature suggests that real earnings management (REM) activities can increase adverse selection-risk in capital markets. Due to their opacity and the difficulties in understanding their implications, REM strategies may increase the level of information asymmetry among investors. This paper...
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This study examines the effect of corporate ownership on information asymmetry as measured by bid-ask spread in the emerging markets of China. Government ownership has significant and positive impacts on bid-ask spread during the period 1995–2000, but disappears afterward during 2001–2003....
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This paper conducts an empirical investigation of the relationship between information asymmetry and real activities manipulation. When information asymmetry is high, stakeholders do not have sufficient resource, incentives, or access to relevant information to monitor manager‘s actions, which...
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We examine corporate disclosure activity around seasoned equity offerings and its effect on stock prices. If a firm's disclosures can increase the proceeds from security issuance, either by reducing information asymmetry or by "hyping" the stock, it will enjoy a lower cost of equity capital at...
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The accrual information is discussed in light of multifactor factor asset pricing theory. It is argued that the capital market processes information efficiently, and that low accruals firms are risky and therefore earn higher average returns. In other words, the level of accruals proxies for the...
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