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Based on a unique arrangement of trading and disclosure times around earnings announcements in the Chinese stock market, we provide evidence of a striking overnight-intraday disparity in terms of the reaction to earnings news. Specifically, we find that the overnight period exhibits a strong and...
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. We consider how managers respond to stock price crashes. Management becomes more focused on improving transparency … capital and employee welfare. These actions result in the increase in firm value. We also find evidence that management …
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Using a structural market microstructure model, we develop a new measure of price informativeness that utilizes data on both price and volume, which we call the INF measure. We show that, compared to traditional measures, our measure is better at capturing information in prices, evidenced by...
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New-CEO earnings news exhibits asymmetric effects on stock prices. Stock prices rise more on good earnings news announced by firms with new CEOs compared with those with established CEOs. By contrast, stock prices tend to fall by a smaller amount on bad earnings news for new CEOs. Both the...
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have practical implications for firms and managers developing communication strategies for new disclosure mediums like …
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and the price-performance-sensitivity of their portfolios also increased, but, managers held less shares and more options …
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This study investigates whether CEO Big Five personalities (i.e., agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness) are associated with stock price crash risk. The Big Five can influence managerial behaviors to withhold or release bad news. When the amount of withheld...
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more able managers over-invest compared to their not-so-able counterparts, even after controlling for the effects of … risk increases for firms with talented managers, primarily because of an adverse effect of managerial talent on financial … reporting quality (both accruals and real earnings management) and this effect is more pronounced for firms that over …
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.g. earnings management, management guidance, and tax avoidance), managers have fixed-effects on “other channels” of news …This paper investigates whether individual CEOs and CFOs have “styles” (i.e. managers' fixed- effects) when it comes to … managers that move across firms and employing a manager fixed effect model, we find that both CEOs and CFOs have fixed …
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objectives. It is shown that, paradoxically, firm owners allow managers with higher propensity to manipulate the short‐term stock … price to push for higher powered and more short‐term‐focused equity incentives. Such managers also work harder, and …
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