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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Bad News"”.
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Breaking Bad News: Effect Of Physician Communication On Analog Patients' Response
Breaking bad news is a difficult, yet unavoidable part of healthcare for physicians and patients alike. Although expert opinion suggests that certain strategies for breaking bad news may be better than others, there is little methodologically rigorous research to support current guidelines. This …
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Litigation Risk and the Optimism in Long-horizon Management Forecasts of Bad News and Good News
… risk affects management forecasting of bad news and good news differently, resulting in differential optimism in these forecasts. I argue that distinct stock price patterns following these two types of management forecasts expose them to differential litigation risk ex post. While …
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Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context
… care providers seem to competently breaking bad news to patients that are college age (18-25yrs old). Breaking bad news is an inevitable and daunting part of working in the health care profession. Delivering this type of news to college age students could occur more frequently than with other …
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Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context
… care providers seem to competently breaking bad news to patients that are college age (18-25yrs old). Breaking bad news is an inevitable and daunting part of working in the health care profession. Delivering this type of news to college age students could occur more frequently than with other …
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Accounting conservatism, earnings components and accounting losses
… contain no accruals, no asymmetry in reflecting bad news. Earnings figures with more accruals exhibit more asymmetry in reflecting bad news. Working capital accruals and special items are important in this asymmetry, but depreciation is not. Interestingly, good news results in a small …
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Macroeconomic News and LOB in Foreign Exchange ECN Market
We investigate the macroeconomic news effect on the dynamics of the limit order books (LOB) for euro-dollar ECN market in different economic states between Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2009. Using a VAR-STR model on the news surprise, pure news, aggregated good and bad news, we show that news effects on the …
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Effect of litigation risk on management forecasts
… link between the voluntary disclosure of bad news and ex ante litigation risk. I find no evidence of a statistically significant link between the voluntary disclosure of good news and ex ante litigation risk.
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Creating a Fog: Can Plain English Be Used to Mislead Investors?
… probability that a subject will understand good news disclosures and accentuates the probability that a subject will understand bad news disclosures. Experimental results in this dissertation thesis also demonstrate that a change in annual report complexity is associated with a change in the …
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Finanças comportamentais: análise dos fatores do efeito manada em empresas listadas na [B]3- Brasil Bolsa Balcão
… the relationship between the subprime crisis, news publishing and company size with The behavior of the 100 companies with the highest trading volumes listed in [B]3 Brazil Stock Exchange Counter, in the period from 2007 to 2016. In order to achieve this, it was used, as a methodology, …
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Disclosure through multiple disclosure channels
… across these two channels, but with more bad news disclosed through SEC filings and more good news disclosed through firm websites. In the short run, asymmetry in processing costs leads to investors impounding the good news in firm websites more quickly than the bad news in the voluntary …
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Predicting Bankruptcy with 10-K Length and Readability
… and less readable content in the presence of bad news in an effort to hide or minimize its impact. Using a common measure of readability (the FOG index) and document length this study demonstrates that these attributes are significant factors in the prediction of a firm’s filing for bankruptcy.
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A new approach to studying earnings announcement timing : why do firms change earnings announcement dates?
… earnings- and market-based proxies for the news content of firms' announcements. I show firms whose earnings announcements are moved forward due to calendar rotations receive greater media coverage of earnings news, experience less preemption of earnings news, and display larger earnings …
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Insider trading
… Insider trading may be based on undisclosed bad news as well as undisclosed news.
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The effect of market transparency on corporate disclosure
… become particularly more likely to disclose bad news, consistent with the notion that investors' access to market information limits managers' incentives to withhold information. I corroborate my results using (1) a small controlled experiment, in which prices and trading are revealed for a …
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ORCHESTRATING FRIENDSHIP WITHIN A FIRM: SOFTENING THE EDGES OF ALGORITHMIC EVALUATION
… or learning, and fear of disclosing bad news to managers. Just as the firm used algorithmic evaluation, many managers simultaneously engaged in a type of relational work with employees we call “orchestrating friendship.” Managers provided employees with socioemotional support, used …
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Determinants and Consequences of Earnings Disclosure Readability
… management may attempt to reduce the impact of bad news by making it more costly to analyze is not new. However, studying the qualitative aspects of the unaudited earnings disclosures is a unique setting and extends previous work on annual report readability. This study finds that the Plain …
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Can You Hear Me Now?: Doctor-Patient Communication and Applications of Neurosurgery in Telemedicine
… questions were posed dealing with telemedicine, bad news delivery, and perceptions of doctor's competence. Qualitative methods were used to engage in five in-depth-interviews to understand patients' stories of their health. Narrative theory was the framework used to analyze data. Five …
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Balancing capital and condition : an emerging approach to facility investment strategy
… The result is simply greater volumes of more "bad news", as facility decision-makers are ill equipped to effectively synthesize numerous requirements and objectively understand the effects of investment decisions. This research develops and applies a new approach to facility investment …
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Role of Microtubule Motor Proteins in Adenoviral Infections
… as a piece of nucleic acid surrounded by bad news. These bad news determine host specificity, pathogenicity, and virulence. In the case of adenovirus, a non-enveloped double-stranded DNA virus that causes self-limiting disease in healthy individuals but can cause severe and even fatal …
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The Impact of Information Uncertainty on Stock Price Performance and Managers' Equity Financing Decision
… abnormal adjusted returns, especially following bad news. Chapter 4 further tests the role of information uncertainty in cross-sectional stock returns within 30 global stock markets. The evidence confirms my conjecture that both growth options and information asymmetry are attributes to the …
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