Disclosure of material earnings-relevant information through corporate and news websites is increasingly popular, and so is the frequency of corrections to initial disclosures made. The formats adopted for such corrections differ in terms of the placement of the erroneous disclosure relative to...

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Recent studies document that market participants react positively to the positive language sentiment or tone embedded in financial disclosures, and that investors’ reactions to negative news are more muted with poor disclosure readability. However, while language sentiment...</p>