Download or read book Information Asymmetry Corporate Disclosure and the Capital Markets written by Paul M. Healy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate disclosure is critical for the functioning of an efficient capital market. Firms provide disclosure through regulated financial reports, including the financial statements, footnotes, management discussion and analysis, and other regulatory filings. In addition, some firms engage in voluntary communication, such as management forecasts, analysts? presentations and conference calls, press releases, internet sites, and other corporate reports. Finally, there are disclosures about firms by information intermediaries, such as financial analysts, industry experts, and the financial press.

Download or read book Effective Company Disclosure in the Digital Age written by Gill North and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective corporate reporting and disclosure are critical in financial markets to promote vigorous competition, optimal performance, and transparency. This book examines whether existing disclosure frameworks in eight countries with the world's most significant securities exchanges achieve these objectives, and then, drawing on extensive empirical findings, identifies the policies and practices that contribute most to improving the overall quality of listed company reporting and communication. Contending that public disclosure of listed company information is an essential precondition to the long-term efficient operation of financial markets, the book provides analysis of such issues and topics as the following: - arguments for and against mandatory disclosure regimes; - key principles of periodic and continuous disclosure regulation; - tensions between direct and indirect investment in financial markets; - assumptions concerning the need to maintain a privileged role for financial intermediaries; - intermediary, analyst, and research incentives; - protection of individual investors; - selective disclosure; - disclosure of bad news; - the role of accounting standards; - public access to company briefings; - long term performance reporting and analysis; and - company reporting developments. A significant portion of the book provides an overview of disclosure regulation and practice in the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore. A highly informative survey looks at company reports, disclosures, and websites of large listed companies, including Microsoft, Citigroup, Teck Resources, Deutsche Bank, BP, Sony, PetroChina Company, BHP Billiton, and Singapore Telecommunications. The book discusses common disclosure issues that arise across jurisdictions, provides valuable insights on the efficacy of existing disclosure regulation and practice, and highlights the important principles, processes, and practices that underpin best practice company disclosure frameworks. It will be welcomed by company boards and executives and their counsel, as well as by policymakers and scholars in the areas of corporate, securities, banking and financial law, accounting, economics and finance.

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 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 Remedies to Informational Asymmetries in Stock Markets written by Peter-Jan Engelen and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2005 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other markets, stock markets are characterised by asymmetric information. If investors cannot distinguish high-quality from low-quality securities, they will value all securities as average resulting in the well known market for lemons. This decreases the allocative efficiency and social welfare by guiding resources to the least good investment opportunities. How can high-quality listed companies communicate with stock markets to distinguish themselves from low-quality listed companies? Although proponents of mandatory disclosure rules in securities markets will answer this question with far-reaching governmental regulation, it is jumping to conclusions and skipping devices that signal the true quality of the investment opportunities to the stock market. This book analyses the functioning of stock markets, in particular the dissemination of price-sensitive information on these markets. In order to evaluate the legal rules governing the dissemination of information from an economic perspective, an operational framework is needed to assess the current disclosure regulation with respect to allocative efficiency. The book replaces vague legal goals of securities regulation, such as investors' protection, by financial economic concepts, such as market efficiency and market liquidity. To enhance allocative efficiency, the book analyses the relevancy of mandatory disclosure rules, the use of trading halts in disseminating information during the opening hours of a stock exchange, the use of selective disclosure and the regulation of insider trading.

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 Transparency and Information Asymmetry in Financial Markets written by Daniel Bar Aharon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Financial Transparency & Information Asymmetry: A critical perspective of EU disclosure regime, Daniel Bar Aharon offers an interdisciplinary critical analysis addressing the inherent limitations mandated disclosure have on market discipline.

Download or read book Intellectual Property Rights and the Financing of Technological Innovation written by Carl Benedikt Frey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A major contribution to the literature on the role of intellectual property rights (IPR) for the financing of innovation. The book is extensively researched and provides compelling insights for IPR managers, technology investors and policymakers trying to promote the efficiency of capital markets and national systems of innovation.' Knut Blind, Berlin University of Technology, Germany Following the transition of industrial nations to knowledge economies, the financing of technological innovation has become a central issue in public policy, corporate finance and business management. This detailed book examines the role of intellectual property rights in facilitating the financing of technological innovation as well as the role of policy makers, investors and managers in this process. The book's central finding is that public policy plays a key role in promoting the corporate disclosure of intellectual property-related information to enhance the efficiency of capital markets. This not only reduces the costs of capital for technology-driven firms but ultimately spurs innovation and economic growth. Intellectual Property Rights and the Financing of Technological Innovation will strongly appeal to research students and academics, policy makers, intellectual property professionals, equity analysts, credit rating analysts and executives in the pharmaceutical industry.

Download or read book Fair Disclosure Or Flawed Disclosure written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essential Information written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Test of the Effects of Changing Information Asymmetry in a Capital Market written by Paul V. Dunmore and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Informal Corporate Disclosure Under Federal Securities Law 2009 written by Ted Trautmann and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal Corporate Disclosure Under Federal Securities Law, 2009 Editionexamines the regulation of informal disclosure -- e.g., press releases,speeches, analyst conference calls, webcasts, and investor roadshows -- asdistinguished from formal, highly structured disclosure in SEC filings. Thecoverage includes discussion of federal securities law, rules and courtdecisions; self-regulatory organization rules for listed companies, andstandards of practice prescribed by the National Investor RelationsInstitute (NIRI).This updated 2009 Edition includes:discussion of the SEC's recent guidance on the use of company web sites,including advice on the sufficiency of web site disclosure as a means ofdissemination under Regulation FD (see ¶1002)liability for hyperlinks to third-party information (see ¶1003)issues presented by the use of summaries and overviews (see ¶1004)concerns related to blogs and online discussion forums (see ¶1009)The new 2009 Edition also examines materiality principlesgoverning quantitative financial disclosures, specifically the recommendationsof the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting,or CIFiR (see ¶¶403 and 1102). In addition, the work covers recentSEC Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on the Form 8-K reportingobligation triggered by disclosure of certain financial information (see¶1105). Finally, the 2009 Edition includes discussion ofnew NIRI standards for quarterly earnings releases (see ¶1103), thetext of selected portions of those standards (see Appendix), and a timelinefor preparing an earnings release (see Appendix).

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 Information Asymmetry Information Precision and the Cost of Capital written by Richard A. Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of information differences across investors in capital markets are still much debated. This paper examines the relation between information differences across investors and the cost of capital, and makes three points. First, in models of perfect competition, information differences across investors affect a firm's cost of capital through investors' average information precision, and not information asymmetry per se. Second, the average precision effect of information that is heterogeneously distributed across investors is unlikely to diversify away when there exist many firms whose cash flows covary. Thus, better disclosure can reduce a firm's cost of capital. Third, the precision effect does not give rise to a separate information-risk factor. These points are important to empirical research in accounting and finance, as well as to regulators who debate future disclosure requirements and the consequences of prior requirements such as Regulation Fair Disclosure.

Download or read book Corporate Disclosure Policy and Analyst Behavior written by Mark H. Lang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the relation between the disclosure practices of firms, the number of analysts following each firm, and properties of the analysts' earnings forecasts. Using data from the Financial Analysts Federation Corporate Information Committee Report (FAF Report), we provide evidence that firms with more informative disclosure policies have a larger analyst following, more accurate analyst earnings forecasts, less dispersion among individual analyst forecasts and less volatility in forecast revisions. The results enhance our understanding of the role of analysts in capital markets. Further, they suggest that potential benefits to disclosure include increased investor following, reduced estimation risk and reduced information asymmetry, each of which have been shown to reduce a firm's cost of capital in theoretical research.

Download or read book The Expected Costs of Increased Disclosure Firm and Industry specific Forces written by Simon Kröger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 1.0, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: A series of financial crises and corporate scandals gave rise to increasing concerns about prevailing models of corporate governance and disclosure and stimulated financial disclosure and reporting regulation. As a result, there has been considerably more interest in documenting the benefits of increased disclosure than its costs. Accordingly, numerous papers purport to provide evidence of capital market benefits through incremental disclosure. At the same time, firms refrain from voluntarily committing to increased disclosure, implying that there must be a trade-off between associated benefits and costs. Consequently, critics contend that the capital market benefits are inconclusive. Instead, increased disclosure may result in adverse capital market effects through increasing information asymmetry. Moreover, critics predict that increased disclosure imposes further costs on the firm. The purpose of this seminar thesis is to review existing literature on these expected costs of increased disclosure. Thereby, I focus on controversies regarding the heavily debated capital market effects as well as on specific forces that determine proprietary and litigation costs associated with increased disclosure. While a firm’s disclosure choices likely are a joint outcome of market forces and incentives provided by regulation, the seminar thesis is limited to voluntary disclosure choices as a starting point for possible disclosure regulation. The remainder of the seminar thesis is structured as follows. Section 2 reviews the literature on the capital market effects of voluntary disclosure through its impact on information asymmetry. Section 3 discusses the ambiguous impact of voluntary disclosure on litigation and proprietary costs. Section 4 concludes the seminar thesis.

Download or read book Integrated Reporting written by Chiara Mio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely addition to the fast-growing international debate on Integrated Reporting, which offers a holistic view of the evolution and practice of Integrated Reporting. The book covers the determinants and consequences of Integrated Reporting, as well as examining some of the most relevant issues (particularly in the context of the United States) in the debate about Integrated Reporting.