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informed. The same cannot be said about outside investors relying primarily on public disclosure. A descriptive analysis of the … main elements of the Germany system and a survey of extant empirical accounting research generally support these arguments. …
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informed. The same cannot be said about outside investors relying primarily on public disclosure. A descriptive analysis of the … main elements of the Germany system and a survey of extant empirical accounting research generally support these arguments. …
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Consumers are rarely sure of the exact standard that product labels and other certificates of quality represent. We show that any such uncertainty creates a “Groucho effect” in which seeing that a product has a label leads consumers to infer that the standard for the label itself is not very...
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information that is disclosed at the end of the auction will influence bidding. Our analysis focuses on several bid disclosure … facts about takeovers/licence auctions. Also, we rank the disclosure rules in terms of the expected revenues they generate … and find that, under certain conditions, full disclosure will not be optimal. …
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Certifiers of quality often report only coarse grades to the public despite having measured quality more finely, e.g., "Pass" or "Certified" instead of "73 out of 100". Why? We show that coarse grades result in more information being provided to the public because the coarseness encourages those...
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We analyze the reliability of voluntary disclosures of financial information, focusing on widely-employed publicly available hedge fund databases. Tracking changes to statements of historical performance recorded at different points in time between 2007 and 2011, we find that historical returns...
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communication, mandate not only the content but also the format of disclosure, and regulate product design. …
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disclosure is to reduce treacherous advice. Our results show that timing actually matters: subsequent transparency significantly …
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Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal’s evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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A principal acquires information about a shock and then discloses it to an agent. After the disclosure, the principal … disclosure rule. We show that even when the acquisition of perfect information is costless, the principal may optimally acquire …
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