This study examines the determinants of Facebook activity levels with a particular focus on Facebook activity around earnings announcements. Facebook activity is generally higher for firms with higher levels of analyst following, individual ownership, and trading volume, indicating that it is...

This study examines the effects of social capital on firm voluntary disclosure. We find that firms headquartered in the U.S. counties with higher levels of social capital provide more voluntary disclosure than firms in the counties with lower levels of social capital. We further find that this...

This analysis identifies a distinct immediate announcement period negative relation between earnings announcement surprises and aggregate market returns. Such a relation implies that market participants use earnings information in forming expectations about expected aggregate discount rates and,...

This study examines the determinants of Facebook activity levels with a particular focus on Facebook activity around earnings announcements. Facebook activity is generally higher for firms with higher levels of analyst following, individual ownership, and trading volume, indicating that it is...

We track the employment histories of over 3,000 chief executive officers (CEOs) and study how their past litigation experiences affect corporate disclosure decisions. We define litigation experience to be any securities class action experienced during a CEO’s early career in other firms and in...

This study investigates the influence of voluntary, unverifiable disclosures on investors’ decisions and their risk perception. We focus on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), in which start-ups and projects raise funds by issuing their own crypto tokens. Based on voluntary, unverifiable disclosure...

Die Rechnungslegungsqualität stellt seit jeher ein zentrales Element der Accounting-Forschung dar. In der Literatur bilden zumeist die Earnings Quality und die Disclosure Quality als unterschiedliche Dimensionen der Accounting Quality den Fokus der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Analysen....