Firms often include summaries with earnings releases. However, manager-generated summaries may be prone to strategic tone and content management compared to the disclosures they summarize. In contrast, computer algorithms can summarize large amounts of text without human intervention, and may...

This study investigates whether an investor's status as a current or a prospective investor affects the investor's susceptibility to earnings fixation and proposes a mechanism to reduce earnings fixation. Our experimental results suggest that current investors are more susceptible to earnings...