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will facilitate greater causal coherence. We test both potential improvements in an experiment with retail investors. We …
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In the presence of litigation facing suppliers, the supply-chain relationship is at risk. Suppliers with principal customers (dependent suppliers) have a higher concentration of sales to customers, and they are more at risk relative to suppliers without principal customers (non-dependent...
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This paper documents that changes in litigation risk affect corporate voluntary disclosure practices. We make causal inferences by exploiting three legal events that generate exogenous variations in firms' litigation risk. Using a matching-based, fixed-effect difference-indifferences design, we...
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We examine the effect of Big 4 auditors on management's use of optimistic language in audited financial statement disclosures. While regulators and practitioners consider the audit of disclosures to be increasingly important, empirical evidence of an auditor's effect on management's qualitative...
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not capture a complete picture of auditor liability, since the vast majority of audit litigation is resolved by attorneys … experiment show that jurors hold auditors more responsible for misstatements of lower estimate uncertainty when the misstated … accounts. However, in a second experiment we find that attorneys negotiate auditor settlements under the incorrect assumption …
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impact auditor liability, and that attorneys would benefit from a better understanding of juror decision making …
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I conduct an experiment with senior executives (CEOs, CFOs, controllers) to examine how their risk disclosure quality …
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Evidence from an interactive experiment indicates that the tendency of users to anchor on one-sided disclosures of risk …
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from these two related disclosures. Our first experiment varies the hedged item risk disclosure format (quantitative or … second experiment finds that the use of a qualitative debiaser that clarifies the relationship between the two disclosures …
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We investigate how the mandated disclosure of Key Audit Matters (KAMs) and management disclosures in the financial statement footnotes affect auditors’ perceptions of their accountability and their subsequent fair value decisions. We find a substitution effect between KAMs disclosures and...
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