Corporate social responsibility report narratives and analyst forecast accuracy

V Muslu, S Mutlu, S Radhakrishnan, A Tsang - Journal of Business Ethics, 2019 - Springer
Standalone corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports vary considerably in the content of
information released due to their voluntary nature. In this study, we develop a disclosure …

Restoring the tower of Babel: How foreign firms communicate with US investors

RJ Lundholm, R Rogo, JL Zhang - The accounting review, 2014 - publications.aaahq.org
We examine the readability of text and the use of numbers in the annual filings and earnings
press releases of foreign firms listed on US stock exchanges. We find that foreign firms …

Impression management and non‐GAAP disclosure in earnings announcements

E Guillamon‐Saorin, H Isidro… - Journal of Business …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Who moves markets in a sudden marketwide crisis? Evidence from 9/11

TR Burch, DR Emery, ME Fuerst - Journal of Financial and …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We compare reactions in the prices and trading patterns of common stocks and closed-end
funds (CEFs), securities with substantially different investor clienteles, to the Sept. 11, 2001 …

Earnings presentation effects on manager reporting choices and investor decisions

R Libby, SA Emett - Accounting and Business Research, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We survey recent (mainly US) research on the effects of earnings presentation attributes on
manager and user behavior. The literature we discuss relates to three primary earnings …

The information value of credit rating action reports: A textual analysis

S Agarwal, VYS Chen, W Zhang - Management Science, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine whether Standard & Poor's (S&P) credit rating action reports contain new
default-related information beyond credit rating actions such as rating changes, credit watch …

[PDF][PDF] Front page news: The effect of news positioning on financial markets

A Fedyk - 2018 - scholar.harvard.edu
This paper estimates the effect of presentation of information on financial markets, using a
natural experiment in prominent “front page” positioning of news on the Bloomberg terminal …

Automatic summarization of earnings releases: attributes and effects on investors' judgments

E Cardinaels, S Hollander, BJ White - Review of Accounting Studies, 2019 - Springer
Firms often include summaries with earnings releases. However, manager-generated
summaries may be prone to strategic tone and content management, compared to the …

Unsophisticated arbitrageurs and market efficiency: overreacting to a history of underreaction?

JA Milian - Journal of Accounting Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Prior research has documented that arbitrage activity significantly reduces or eliminates
stock market anomalies. However, if anomalies arise due to unsophisticated investors' …

Opportunity knocks but once: delayed disclosure of financial items in earnings announcements and neglect of earnings news

Y Li, A Nekrasov, SH Teoh - Review of Accounting Studies, 2020 - Springer
We define a delayed disclosure ratio (DD) as the fraction of 10-Q financial statement items
that are withheld at the earlier quarterly earnings announcement. We find that higher DD …