In contrast to the disappearing dividends view, we predict that variability in dividend payments increases investor demand for dividend information and analysts respond to this demand by producing informative dividend forecasts. We examine dividend payers from 16 countries spanning 2000–2013...

We use the COVID-19 pandemic to examine how this tail risk event affected analysts research production and their information intermediation role. Analysts markedly increase their research activity in the initial months of the pandemic: the number of quarterly earnings forecasts increases by 72%,...

We document that the quality of public and private information available to investors improves before seasoned equity offerings (SEO) but deteriorates shortly thereafter. As firms improve their financial communication, analyst earnings forecasts become more accurate and less biased. However,...

Research suggesting the existence of the accrual anomaly runs into the issue that risk serves as a competing explanation for abnormal returns. This paper proposes a novel approach to distinguish between risk and anomaly explanations for the negative association between accruals and returns. The...

This study examines the usefulness of Twitter, YouTube and Instagram in corporate communication. We document that Twitter communication helps investors interpret earnings news and associates with stronger price reactions to earnings announcements. YouTube videos and Instagram pictures have...

Building on the knowledge-based view of the resource-based theory, we propose that accounting firms leverage the industry expertise acquired from the audits of the targets’ industries to produce fairer target valuations on merger and acquisitions (M&As). The accounting expertise competitive...