Managers' voluntary disclosure of forward-looking earnings information results in stock prices reflecting that information prior to the fiscal period when the corresponding earnings are announced. We predict that forward-looking management earnings forecasts (MFs) will lead to a weaker relation...

We develop and test explanations for sources of intertemporal variation in the information content of aggregate earnings and how that variation explains variation in the relation between aggregate earnings growth and market returns over time. We find that the correlation between aggregate...

There is limited empirical evidence on when and why individuals incur costs to acquire information about a firm that is not publicly available, which we refer to as private information acquisition. This lack of evidence is due in large part to the difficulty of observing private information...

I examine how the presence of a more active (liquid) resale market for real assets influences the likelihood, timeliness, and magnitude of long-lived asset impairments. I find that firms with more liquid real assets are more likely to record an impairment both unconditionally and conditional on...

Bank regulators and academics have long conjectured the beneficial effects of smoothing in loan loss provisions (i.e., making higher provisions during good times so as to avoid doing so during bad times) for bank lending and stability, while accounting regulators express concerns about its...

In many research settings, entropy balancing (Hainmueller 2012) is a convenient statistical method for reweighting a control sample to achieve covariate balance with a treatment sample of interest. Despite this, researchers raise several concerns and questions not specifically addressed by...