Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance

Z Li, F Wen, ZJ Huang - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
Using the Chinese stock market data, we test the hypothesis that cognitive dissonance
influences the stock market response to earnings news. Supporting this notion, we find that …

Management earnings forecast and technical innovation: the mediating effects of cost of debt

M Bilal Khan, E Ezeani, H Saleem… - Journal of Accounting in …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study examines whether a firm's management earnings forecasts affect its
technical innovation activities. Our study also examines whether the cost of debt plays a …

Is there a tradeoff between management earnings forecasts and sustainability reporting?

L Tuo, Z Rezaee, L Gao - Global Finance Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the relationship between managers' incentives to disclose
management earnings forecasts (MEFs) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) …

Analyst forecasting during COVID-19 pandemic

R Hao, J Xue, LNB Yau, C Zhang - Managerial Auditing Journal, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to examine the characteristics of financial analysts' earnings
forecasts after COVID-19 outbroke in the USA. Specifically, the authors examine how …

Managerial diversity and corporate communication in periods of crisis

S Falconieri, C De Amicis - Review of Corporate Finance, 2023 - openaccess.city.ac.uk
This paper employs earnings conference calls to investigate if and how the style of corporate
disclosures changes during times of crisis, when information frictions between firms and the …

Do exogenous economic crises change investors' response to earnings announcements?: A detailed review using the data from COVID-19 pandemic

A Kale, D Kale - The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of an exogenous economic crisis on investors' response to
corporate earnings announcements. We use COVID-19 as an exogenous shock as an …

Heterogeneous overreaction in expectation formation: Evidence and theory

H Chen, X Li, G Pei, Q Xin - Journal of Economic Theory, 2024 - Elsevier
Using firm-level earnings forecasts and managerial guidance data, we construct guidance
surprises for analysts, ie, differences between managerial guidance and analysts' initial …

[HTML][HTML] Signal strength adjustment behavior: Evidence from share repurchases

K Ota, D Lau, H Kawase - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper extends the signaling hypothesis by investigating the signal strength adjustment
behavior with respect to the announcement of an open market repurchase (OMR). Given that …

Withdrawal of management guidance during the Covid-19 pandemic

A Aaron, J Kang, J Ng, TO Rusticus - Available at SSRN 4791875, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
The Covid-19 pandemic produced unprecedented macroeconomic conditions for many
firms. It also provoked a surge in firms withdrawing their prior guidance—a corporate …

Environmental legal institutions and management earnings forecasts: Evidence from the establishment of environmental courts in China

X Liu, H Feng, G Tian, T Zhang - International Review of Economics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether and how managers of highly polluting firms adjust their
earnings forecast behaviors in response to the introduction of environmental legal …