We investigate how the accounting treatment of intangible assets on managers' likelihood of issuing voluntary earnings guidance (MEF). We find that unrecognized intangibles (immediately expensed) are negatively associated with MEF issuance, while recognized intangibles (capitalized) show a...

Corruption within corporate entities continues to be a relatively overlooked yet significant issue to date. This study seeks to investigate the impact of corruption on the quality of earnings. The sample comprises 846 firm-years listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. Earnings quality...

In this study, we find that relative to firms with less media coverage, stock price sensitivity to positive (negative) earnings surprises in earnings announcements of firms with greater media coverage is stronger (weaker). This asymmetry in the effect of media coverage on stock price sensitivity...

Several prior studies indicate that financial analysts exhibit systematic underreaction to information; others illustrate systematic overreaction. We assume that cognitive biases influence analysts' behavior and that these misreactions are not systematic, but they depend on the nature of news....

With the still presence of underreaction to earnings announcements, the Taiwan stock market provides an ideal setting to examine the market response to the announced earnings news. This paper extends the rationale of investors’ differential sophistication and attention allocation by estimating...

We study the forecasting behavior of minority sell-side equity analysts. Distinct from the impact of cultural and geographic diversity, we demonstrate that, although minority analyst forecasts have lower accuracy, consistency in their forecasts generates stronger correlation between the...

We conduct an event study around the earning announcement to examine the asymmetric post earnings announcement drift, and its relationship with the bid-ask bias, order follow imbalance on post earnings announcement period for UK stock market from 2000-2021. The earning drift is significantly...

If stocks that heavily shorted by retail traders experience large positive earnings surprises, they tend to have abnormally higher returns on the earnings announcement day and beyond. This effect is more pronounced for less liquid stocks and unrelated to non-short selling by retail traders....

We examine employee reactions to earnings announcement (EA) news using micro-level data on individual employees’ bank and credit card transactions. We find that EA news is positively associated with changes in employee consumption around the EA. This reaction is stronger for employees with...

Using manually collected firm-level data on foreign subsidiaries, we examine the impact of internationalisation on analysts’ earnings forecast bias in Chinese multinational corporations. We find that analysts’ earnings forecast bias is stronger among multi-national firms when compared with...

We investigate the extent to which international and domestic economic policy uncertainty (EPU) impacts analysts’ earnings forecasts for Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed firms. Over a twenty-year period, we demonstrate that EPU is positively associated with analyst coverage, the...

This paper examines how firms use tone in social media messages related to earnings announcements. While previous research has focused on financial information shared via Twitter, little attention has been given to tone. The study finds that tweet tone is associated with earnings performance and...

Management enjoys tremendous discretion in what information they discuss in earnings announcements (EAs) and how they present this information. We develop an extensive dataset cataloging the nature of discussion of a wide range of financial metrics in EAs from 2004-2019. We begin by identifying...

Motivated by research from the late 1990s and early 2000s, researchers often examine analyst performance as a function of individual analyst characteristics using variables representing analysts’ experience, busyness, and resources. Studies make different choices for variable construction and...