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disclosure or introducing a derivatives market may backfire, aggravating fragility (in particular when the asset side of a … financial intermediary is opaque). It is found that the regulator should set together disclosure and prudential policy. The …
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We consider the strategic timing of information releases in a dynamic disclosure model. Because investors don’t know …
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discourage discretionary disclosure. On the other hand, by opening up foreign markets and enhancing firms’ growth opportunities …
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This paper models the effect of disclosure on real investment. We show that, even if the act of disclosure is costless …, a high-disclosure policy can be costly. Some information ("soft") cannot be disclosed. Increased disclosure of "hard … soft information, increased disclosure induces the manager to improve hard information at the expense of soft, e.g. by …
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We analyze the reliability of voluntary disclosures of financial information, focusing on widely-employed publicly available hedge fund databases. Tracking changes to statements of historical performance recorded at different points in time between 2007 and 2011, we find that historical returns...
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class of "natural" solutions) according to the likelihood of disclosure that they induce. This ordering identifies the best … choose the timing of disclosure. …
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state of the economy (or the industry) affects this decision. We develop a dynamic model of strategic disclosure in which a …
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I develop a model of rent seeking with informational foundations and an arbitrary number of rent seekers, and I compare the results with Tullock's (1980) classic model where the influence activities are "black-boxed." Given the microfoundations, the welfare consequences of rent seeking can be...
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We develop a model in which two firms that have proposed to merge are privately informed about merger-specific efficiencies. This enables the firms to influence the merger control procedure by strategically revealing their information to an antitrust authority. Although the information improves...
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This Paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting approach to executive compensation, which has dominated academic research on the subject, pay arrangements are set by a board of directors...
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