Author: Yetaotao Qiu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This dissertation includes three essays on corporate disclosure and information externalities. In the first essay, I examine the disclosure behavior of rival firms identified by an Initial Public Offering (IPO) candidate during the IPO quiet period when the IPO candidate is restricted in its communication. I find that the tone of disclosures made by identified rivals becomes more positive during the quiet period, and reverses after the quiet period ends. The strategic disclosure behavior is mainly driven by identified rivals' concerns over product market competition. I also find that this behavior hurts the IPO candidate and benefits the identified rivals. In the second essay, I investigate the relations between IPO firms' peer choice and peer information environment. I find that IPO firms tend to select peer companies with a better information environment, and this effect is more pronounced for IPO firms with greater information uncertainties. I also find support that peer information environment is positively associated with upward offering price revision, post-offering analyst coverage, and negatively associated with the number of amendment filings. Overall, this essay shows that IPO firms can make use of the externalities of peer information to facilitate their initial public offerings. In the third essay, I switch my focus from intra-industry relations to supply chain relations. More specifically, I study the effects of layoff announcements by customers on the valuation and operating performance of their supply chain partners. I find that suppliers experience a negative stock price reaction around their major customers' layoff announcements. The negative price effect is exacerbated when industry rivals of layoff-announcing customers also suffer from negative intra-industry contagion effects. Moreover, these supply chain spillover effects are asymmetric, with only "bad news" layoff announcements causing significant value implications for suppliers, but not "good news" announcements. Supplier firms also reduce their investment in and sales dependence on layoff-announcing customers in subsequent years. Keywords: Disclosure; Product market competition; IPO quiet period; Identified rivals; Information externalities; Peer information environment; Corporate layoffs, Supply chain relations; Stock market return
Author: Junqi Liu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This dissertation consists of three essays that focus on corporate external communication of accounting information. My dissertation's primary goal is to understand better how firms' financial disclosure behaviors change in response to various internal and external forces. To achieve this goal, I use empirical archival methods and employ several unique settings to examine the influences of three particular forces on firms' financial disclosure activities. Specifically, in the first essay, I focus on a firm's internal production function and ask whether labor cost stickiness shapes income smoothing activities. By contrast, the second and third essays explore the influences of two external factors, namely product market competition with existing rivals and the local information environment, respectively, on firms' mandatory and voluntary disclosure behaviors.
Author: Mohammad Erfan Danesh Jafari Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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My thesis consists of three chapters and each chapter studies a different aspect of how information is generated and diffused among different market participants. Chapter 1 and 2 study the impact of timing of 13(f) disclosures. Section 13(f) of SEC regulation requires any financial institution with \$100 million or more in assets to disclose its holdings on a quarterly basis within 45 days after the quarter end. Recently, the SEC was petitioned to shorten this 45-day period. In Chapter 1, I develop a model to examine the impacts of a shortened reporting period. Among other results, I demonstrate that a shorter reporting period results in more liquid markets albeit at the expense of reducing price informativeness. In chapter 2 we look at 14 years of form 13F filings between 1999 and 2012. We demonstrate that active institutions tend to file their holding disclosures with longer delays. We show that concerns about copycat investors do not cause the financial institutions to delay their filings; however, fears of presence of front-runners prompt the financial institutions to file their disclosures with longer delays. We also look at financial institutions' decision to delay around important corporate events for stocks in the institutions' portfolio and document that institutions delay their filings around these events possibly to hide their true voting powers. Chapter 3 studies the implications of SFAS No. 14 and SFAS No. 131, which require firms to disclose the existence of sales to individual customers representing more than 10\% of total firm revenues. We document that firms gain visibility by disclosing economic relationships with reputable trading partners. We find that supplier firms enjoy a boost in news coverage and a subsequent reduction in advertising expense when they disclose trading relationships with well-known customer firms. After relationship establishment, supplier firms are more likely to be held by the same institutional investor and covered by the same analyst following their customer firms. Our findings highlight the role of product-market network as an important channel through which small and young firms gain investor recognition and improve their operating environment.
Author: Alessandro Ghio Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This Ph.D. thesis studies the determinants and consequences of information asymmetry between investors and financers on the one hand, and managers on the other, in an uncertain and complex environment. I focus on Small and Medium Entities (SMEs) where the links between the two and the associated agency costs are particularly significant. SMEs are concerned by a whole host of contractual issues. The uncertainties surrounding SMEs' activities also affect investor valuations due to the risk of adverse selection. SMEs' disclosure may play an important part in reducing for market participants the uncertainty surrounding SMEs' activities. My Ph.D. thesis, consisting of a general introduction and three chapters representing three self-contained essays, explores (1) the type of financial information relevant to SMEs' investors and financers; (2) managerial decisions following market expectations about SMEs' disclosure; and (3) the impact of social media on SMEs' disclosure.
Author: Hani Tadros Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
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The objective of this dissertation is to study the incentives of firms to disclose their environmental information and examine the reliability of the information disclosed. To achieve this objective, there is a need to first understand what constitutes environmental disclosures. The first essay, a review of prior disclosure studies, provides a classification of the different types of environmental disclosures and a synopsis about the motivation to disclose each type of information, the reliability and the relevance of the information disclosed to different stakeholders. The outcome of this research shows that many types of environmental information are relevant to the financial and non-financial stakeholders; however, there are still other types of information that needs to be researched to finally achieve a comprehensive framework of environmental disclosures. The second essay examines the association between environmental disclosures and firms’ environmental performances. The study provides a framework to explain the disclosure process demonstrating the effect of economic and legitimacy factors, environmental performance, and the media communicating these disclosures on the amount and type of information reported. The results suggest that environmental reporting is biased; where firms with higher levels of environmental performance disclose more voluntary information while firms with low-environmental performance tend to meet the mandatory disclosure requirements. There is little evidence to suggest that firms with low-environmental performances use their environmental disclosures to maintain the legitimacy of their environmental operations. The third essay examines the reliability of environmental performance indicators disclosed. The results suggest that the reporting of firms’ EPIs might be free of bias as the study finds no association between the information disclosed and firms’ environmental performance. In general, the dissertation provides assurances over the reliability of environmental information disclosed. There is no denial that firms are subject to pressures from non-financial stakeholders to justify the impact of their operations on the environment. This dissertation shows that firms attempt to use their environmental disclosures to mitigate the effects of these pressures; however, it also suggests that the need to legitimize their operations is not the main driver behind the reporting of environmental information.
Author: Yetaotao Qiu
Author: Junqi Liu
Author: Wenyao Hu
Author: Tanja Keeve
Author: Mohammad Erfan Danesh Jafari
Author: Elisabeth Pauline Kläs
Author: Evgeny Petrov
Author: Sarah Kröchert
Author: Alessandro Ghio
Author: Hani Tadros