I argue that external financial reporting quality has at best a 2nd order effect on firm value of U.S. publicly traded companies and that attempts to improve a firm's external reporting quality has a 3rd order effect on these firms' value. Recognizing that external financial reporting quality is...

Under GAAP, SEC and exchange-listing rules, managers must disclose material information. We construct a disclosure specification incorporating managers' obligation to disclose material information and voluntary disclosure incentives. We demonstrate that tests of the incentives to voluntarily...

This study examines whether firm-level earnings announcements aggregated on a given trading day are a timely, incremental source of macroeconomic information relative to numerous competing sources of regularly-released macroeconomic information. Using an exponential GARCH model for both the...