Download or read book Essays on Capital Markets and Corporate Disclosure written by Danil A. Borilo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis studies how a firm's disclosure decisions are affected by the interaction between prevailing financial reporting regulation and managerial incentives. Chapter 1 summarizes studies related to this thesis. I focus on rules that require a firm to issue regular financial statements. As a result, the release of some information about a firm's performance and financial condition is inevitable. However, since financial statements do not fully reflect all value-relevant information, a firm's manager can still affect the interpretation of this information via voluntary disclosure. In Chapter 2, I study how reputational concerns of a firm's manager affect her voluntary disclosure decisions. I show that interpretation of both the firm's report and voluntarily disclosed information depend on the timing of the disclosure relative to disclosures made by other firms in the same industry. In Chapter 3, I consider the case when private information of the firm's manager cannot be credibly communicated to outside investors and a mandatory financial report is the only available information channel about firm value. As a result, the noisiness of a financial report will lead investors to overvalue some firms and undervalue others. I show that allowing for misreporting can increase social welfare if a firm must rely on external capital in order to finance its investment opportunities. Overall, my results emphasize the importance of taking into account strategic disclosure decisions of managers for regulators, investors, and analysts.

Download or read book Essays on Corporate Disclosure Governance and Capital Markets written by Zhao Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Financial Reporting Corporate Disclosure and Capital Markets written by Moritz Bassemir and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Interrelation of Corporate Disclosure and Capital Markets written by Christian W. Kretzmann and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Value of Accounting Disclosure on Capital Markets written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how capital markets interpret accounting disclosure. In three empirical studies, I evaluate the role that accounting disclosure plays in evaluating financial prospects and facilitating pricing decisions. The present thesis contains three essays that analyze the market response to changes in accounting disclosure. I examine the relationship between financial disclosure and stock market reaction in three event studies, after: (1) a company's inclusion in the S & P 500 index (in Chapter 1), (2) the introduction of international accounting standards (IFRS) in Europe (in Chapter 2), and (3) cross-listing of a Canadian company on the US stock exchange (in Chapter 3). El objetivo de esta tesis es analizar cómo los mercados de capital interpretan la información contable. En tres estudios empíricos, la tesis evalúa el papel que desempeñan los datos contables en la evaluación de las perspectivas financieras y en las decisiones de inversión. La presente tesis contiene tres ensayos que analizan la respuesta del mercado a los cambios en la calidad de información de los datos contables. En particular, la relación entre información financiera y la reacción del mercado de valores esta evaluada en tres diferentes contextos: (1) la inclusión de una empresa en el índice S & P 500 (en el capítulo 1), (2) la introducción de normas internacionales de contabilidad (NIIF) en Europa (en el capítulo 2), y (3) la admisión a cotización de una empresa canadiense en los mercados financieros de EE. UU. (en el capítulo 3).

Download or read book Essay on the Value of Accounting Disclosure on Capital Markets written by Petya Platikanova and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Contemporary Topics in Capital Markets Research written by Sandra Grabriele Schafhäutle and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financial Accounting and Equity Markets written by Philip Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Brown is one of the most admired and respected accounting academics alive today. He was a pioneer in capital markets research in accounting, and his 1968 article, co-authored with Ray Ball, "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers," arguably had a greater impact on the course of accounting research, directly and indirectly, than any other article during the second half of the twentieth century. Since that time, his innovative research has focused on issues that bridge accounting and finance, including the relationships between net profit reports and the stock market, the long-run performance of acquiring firms, statutory sanctions and voluntary corporate disclosure, and the politics and future of national accounting standards to name a few. This volume brings together the greatest hits of Brown’s career, including several articles that were published in out-of-the-way places, for easier use by students and researchers in the field. With a foreword written by Stephen A. Zeff, and an introduction that discusses the evolution of Brown’s research interests and explains the context for each of the essays included in the volume, this book offers the reader a unique look inside this remarkable 50-year career.

Download or read book Essays on the Capital Market Consequences of Disclosures written by Shuo Yang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financial Accounting and Equity Markets written by Philip Ronald Brown and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Brown is one of the most admired and respected accounting academics alive today. He was a pioneer in capital markets research in accounting, and his 1968 article, co-authored with Ray Ball, "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers," arguably had a greater impact on the course of accounting research, directly and indirectly, than any other article during the second half of the twentieth century. Since that time, his innovative research has focused on issues that bridge accounting and finance, including the relationships between net profit reports and the stock market, the long-run performance of acquiring firms, statutory sanctions and voluntary corporate disclosure, and the politics and future of national accounting standards to name a few. This volume brings together the greatest hits of Brown's career, including several articles that were published in out-of-the-way places, for easier use by students and researchers in the field. With a foreword written by Stephen A. Zeff, and an introduction that discusses the evolution of Brown's research interests and explains the context for each of the essays included in the volume, this book offers the reader a unique look inside this remarkable 50-year career.

Download or read book The Transformation of Financial Capitalism written by George David Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effects of Corporate Disclosure on a Firm s Cost of Capital written by Markus Bäder and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1.0, accadis Hochschule Bad Homburg, course: Final Thesis, language: English, abstract: The potential relation of increased levels of corporate disclosure on a firm’s cost of capital remains of great importance, both from a research-focussed and business- oriented point-of-view; however, the existence of methodological drawbacks has led to ever more complex studies, which eventually made the literature vast and confusing for outside readers. The purpose of this thesis was to organise and thereby simplify the different perspectives on a dynamic issue. It is argued that, in theory, enhanced transparency levels the marketplace by spreading information more equally among investors. Consequently, the information asymmetry component is mitigated, which translates into lower levels of estimation risk, transaction costs and default risk. After all, theoretical studies provided evidence that increased disclosure lowers the costs of capital. However, since neither of the involved components is directly observable, a myriad of approaches emerged to approximate actual figures. Although most of these proxies follow similar patterns, it is argued that none of the present approaches is free from constraints, which, in turn, affects the reliability of existing empirical studies. Research, after all, still lacks a generally accepted and holistic approach to the present day. In this context, one of the most recent findings provides a new and rather praxis-oriented perspective, by arguing that firms and investors are merely interested in a good-practice level of disclosure. Regardless of the perspective, an ultimate conclusion has yet to be revealed by the literature and it seems illusory that academics and practitioners agree on one approach in the future. Nevertheless, the contribution of this thesis was merely to structure and simplify the current state of a dynamic issue. The author therefore used easy to understand graphics and tables and linked the findings to related fields of research, where necessary.

Download or read book Three Essays on Corporate Disclosure by Small and Medium Entities written by Alessandro Ghio and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ph.D. thesis studies the determinants and consequences of information asymmetry between investors and financers on the one hand, and managers on the other, in an uncertain and complex environment. I focus on Small and Medium Entities (SMEs) where the links between the two and the associated agency costs are particularly significant. SMEs are concerned by a whole host of contractual issues. The uncertainties surrounding SMEs' activities also affect investor valuations due to the risk of adverse selection. SMEs' disclosure may play an important part in reducing for market participants the uncertainty surrounding SMEs' activities. My Ph.D. thesis, consisting of a general introduction and three chapters representing three self-contained essays, explores (1) the type of financial information relevant to SMEs' investors and financers; (2) managerial decisions following market expectations about SMEs' disclosure; and (3) the impact of social media on SMEs' disclosure.

Download or read book Essays on Public Finance and Social Media Based Corporate Disclosure written by Anin Rupp and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation consists of three chapters that study issues relating to financial regulations and firm disclosure using social media. In the first chapter, I provide an introduction to the dissertation. In the second chapter, my coauthor and I examine whether state pension funds face distorted incentives as a result of the 4Q1986 GASB accounting guidelines which allowed state pension funds to discount liabilities with the expected returns of their investments. We hypothesize that state pension funds increase their equity allocation when faced with regulatory and market shocks and this results in fund underperformance. The empirical results show that as a result of GASB and Black Monday shocks, state pension funds increase their portfolio allocation to equities. Additionally, this increase in equities result in underperformance of their portfolio compared to the benchmark. In the third chapter, my coauthors and I study the informativeness of firms’ tweets, and how quickly markets react to the information embedded within. Utilizing machine learning techniques, we classify firm tweets into six informational categories and study the five minute market reaction. We find that markets react significantly to financial tweets, that is, tweets with information on earnings release, dividends announcements or similar such tweets. We also find that while markets do not react to CSR tweets in general, CSR tweets which contain objective information on CSR expenditure elicit a negative reaction. We further find that market’s reaction to financial tweets is increasing in the institutional shareholding proportion, suggesting that institutional shareholders facilitate the price adjustments to information in firm tweets. In additional tests, we document that market reaction is increasing in the extent of the firm’s perceived information credibility and in the level of the information uncertainty for the firm.

Download or read book Essays on Corporate Finance and Disclosure written by Brian Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains three essays. In the first essay, I document that disclosure of financially immaterial environmental and social (E&S) information has material effects on firms' investment and financing decisions using the staggered introduction of 87 country-level regulations that mandate firms report such information. Firms domiciled in countries that mandate E&S transparency increase R&D expenditures and patenting activity after disclosing. Transparent non-financial disclosure reduces financing frictions, resulting in more innovation for equity-dependent firms and increased reliance on external equity. It also improves shareholders' contracting and monitoring abilities, incentivizing managers to invest in innovation. Fixed capital investment, which is less sensitive to information frictions, does not change following E&S disclosure. Additionally, I only observe changes to investment and financing decisions when E&S disclosure is mandatory--highlighting the unique value of consistent and comparable disclosure. In the second essay, I study venture capital firms (VCs) use of public market information and how attention to this information relates to their private market investment outcomes. I link web traffic to public disclosure filings hosted on the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) EDGAR server to individual VCs. VCs analyze public information before most deals. An increase in EDGAR filing views relates positively to the probability of an exit through acquisition, suggesting that public information helps identify paths to acquisition. The effect is stronger when the VC has less access to private information. I conclude that policymakers should consider spillover effects on private markets when setting public disclosure requirements. In the third essay, we identify analysts' information acquisition patterns by linking EDGAR server activity to analysts' brokerage houses. Analysts rely on EDGAR in 24% of their estimate updates, with an average of eight filings viewed. We document that analysts' attention to public disclosure is driven by the demand for information and the analysts' incentives and career concerns. We find that information acquisition via EDGAR is associated with a significant reduction in analysts' forecasting error relative to their peers. This relationship is likewise present when we focus on the intensity of analyst research. Attention to public information further enables analysts to provide forecasts for more time periods and more financial metrics. Informed recommendation updates are associated with substantial and persistent abnormal returns, even when the analyst accesses historical filings. Analysts' use of EDGAR is associated with longer and more informative analyses within recommendation reports.

Download or read book Experiences and Challenges in the Development of the Chinese Capital Market written by Douglas Cumming and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of the global economy has increasingly shifted toward China and emerging countries. However, despite their high growth prospects, emerging economies often lack the sound capital market and corporate governance systems necessary to promote the efficient allocation of financial resources to maintain the confidence of capital providers. As China becomes more prominent economically, the development of its capital market becomes an increasingly important issue. This book presents some of the latest academic research on China's capital markets, demonstrating some of the major issues currently being faced. Preeminent researchers in the field examine key topics such as the performance of commercial banks, dividends and ownership, financial constraints and firm performance, the role of political networks, stock price decomposition, stock return predictability, and the role of media coverage. In this book, the authors use the country's institutional background to offer useful insight into policy implications for the development of China as well as other emerging economies.

Download or read book Essays in Financial Accounting and Corporate Governance written by Jun Chen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three papers examining several questions in finance and accounting. A common thread is investigating the strategic interactions between public firms and stock market investors. Chapter 1 studies how investors with short-term horizons can impact firms' behaviors. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the impact of corporate disclosure and the market pricing of information. In Chapter 1, I use the unique features of the margin trading system in China to identify the causal impact of transient investors on managerial myopia. Specifically, I employ a regression discontinuity design that exploits the ranking procedure that determines a stock's margin trading eligibility. I find that margin traders are extremely short-term oriented and cause a sharp increase in stock share turnover. Moreover, marginable firms cater to these transient investors by manipulating current earnings and reducing long-term investments. Consistent with managerial myopia, these firms experience a short-term price increase but a long-term decline in operating performance. Chapter 2 is joint work with John Hughes, Jun Liu, and Dan Yang. We reexamine the relation between disclosure indices and cost of equity capital employing an empirical specification similar to that of (botosan97) for a substantially larger sample over an extended time frame made possible by textual analysis. Our results provide no support for a hypothesis of a negative relation between disclosure indices and implied cost of equity capital. Rather, consistent with a bias of implied cost of equity capital as a proxy for expected return depicted by (Hughes2009) we find strong evidence of a positive relation. Chapter 3 is joint work with Yibin Liu. We exploit an earnings-based delisting policy and examine its adverse effect on investor trust in earnings news. Besides providing prominent visual evidence of large-scale earnings management at the required earnings threshold, we find that firms close to this threshold are trusted less by investors, regardless of whether they have manipulated earnings. Moreover, we provide causal evidence by studying firms that approach this threshold due to a plausibly exogenous profitability shock. Our results suggest that earnings-based regulations with harsh punishment may lead to a decline in investor trust.