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DOES IT PAY TO DISCLOSE MANAGERIAL EARNINGS INFORMATION EARLY?
Author(s) -
Gelles Gregory,
Howe John S.,
Xing Xuejing
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of financial research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1475-6803
pISSN - 0270-2592
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6803.2011.01294.x
Subject(s) - private information retrieval , earnings , business , sample (material) , value (mathematics) , accounting , earnings management , selection bias , actuarial science , medicine , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , pathology , machine learning , computer science
Does it pay to voluntarily disclose the manager's private information about the firm's earnings prospects before the mandatory announcement date? This question has been a subject of much debate because prior research establishes both benefits and costs of early information disclosure. We provide evidence on the net effect of such disclosure by examining its impact on firm value. Using a large sample and correcting for self‐selection bias, we find that early disclosure of the manager's private earnings information enhances the end‐of‐period value of the firm.