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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Informativeness"”.
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Essays on the informativeness of earnings
… quarterly) is systematically associated with the informativeness of these disclosures and uses data from member countries of the G20.
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Informativeness of Value-at-risk Disclosure in the Banking Industry
… determinants and consequences of VaR disclosure informativeness in the banking industry. First, this study finds that more informative VaR disclosure is associated with more effective corporate governance characteristics, including better shareholder protection, a larger and more independent …
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Attention To Retention: The Informativeness Of Insider's Decision to Retain Shares
I show that corporate insiders’ decision to retain shares is pervasive and informative about future firm performance. Insiders file Form 144 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to report their intention to introduce unregistered stock into their company’s public float. However, the form …
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The effects of language on the informativeness and accuracy of child witnesses in Kenya
… to assess the effects of language on children's informativeness and accuracy for a staged memory event one week after it occurred. The study took place in a school which is located in rural Central Kenya where Kikuyu is the dominant home language for the locals. Hence, all seventy-six …
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Do IFRS adoption, financial analysts and earnings quality affect the informativeness of stock price?Evidence from the UK
… Reporting Standards (IFRS) affects stock price informativeness, as measured by the extent to which firm-specific information is capitalised into the stock price. Using a sample of 6,367 firm-year observations from 970 publicly listed UK firms during the period from 1990 to 2013, the results show …
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Understanding Contributors to Input Informativeness for Tense Marking: Overlap among English Typology, Parent-Toddler Interaction Style, and Register
… to better understand the contributors to input informativeness for tense marking, a predictor of child tense marking productivity (Hadley, Rispoli, Fitzgerald and Bahnsen, in press). The contributors explored were parent-toddler interaction style, register, and constraints of English verb …
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Comprehension and Production of Contrastive Reference in Autism
… and production of contrastive reference and informativeness in autistic children, aiming to enhance our understanding of their pragmatic language strengths and challenges and potentially inform improved assessment and support strategies.</p> <p>A total of forty-two monolingual …
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Innovation Focused Strategy and Earnings Management
… between firm innovation strategy and earnings informativeness. Earnings informativeness is defined as the usefulness of earnings in determining market returns and value. Signaling theory suggests that firms send information or signals to the market regarding their future performance (Hao and …
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Does Who We Are Influence What We Say? The Impact of Organizational Identity on Responses to Ethical Issues
… of interest in this study are the prominence and informativeness of restatement announcements made by organizations after learning of a need to correct previous financial misstatements. Hypotheses focus on the influence of organizational characteristics on restatement announcements, using an …
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Epistemic Rationality and Justification
… nevertheless be epistemically rational because informativeness is an important factor to consider in assessing the epistemic rationality of a belief. To argue for this thesis, I first raise the question of why it is reasonable for physicists to either reject or continue to accept Newton's theory …
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Repetitive Disclosures in the MD & A
… and that such disclosures decrease the informativeness of other disclosures (non-repetitive) in the MD Building on research from the communication literature, I find evidence contradicting the SEC's views. First, repetitive disclosures are informative to investors and financial analysts. …
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The Perception and Recognition of 3-D Shape from Shadows Cast onto Curved Surfaces
The informativeness of a cast shadow or silhouette boundary contour for the perception of 3-D object shape has been investigated for a long time. Some researchers have focused on the informativeness of static shadows (Attneave, 1954; Koenderink, 1984; Richards, Koenderink, & Hoffman, 1987; Norman, …
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The quality of disclosure and governance and their effect on litigation risk
… factors of lawsuits, one component named 'informativeness' has significant power to explain subsequent lawsuits. In head-to-head comparisons of the 'informativeness' principal component with Standard & Poor's Transparency and Disclosure score, my informativeness measure is more effective …
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Observational learning with finite memory
… between the cases of bounded and unbounded informativeness of private signals. In contrast to the literature that typically assumes myopic agents who choose the action that maximizes the probability of making the correct decision (the decision that identifies correctly the underlying state), …
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The Impact Of Disclosing Auditor Independence And Tenure On Non-Professional Investor Judgment And Decision-Making
… information in the audit report will improve the informativeness of the audit report for investors and as a result will modify its relevance to investment decisions. Using an experiment, I find that these disclosures positively influence non-professional investor judgments of auditor attributes – …
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The role of Prediction Error in Probabilistic Associative Learning
… a variable learning rate depending on a relative informativeness of stimuli - also accounts of the classic blocking effect \cite{kamin1969predictability} without the need for Prediction Error [PE] computation. Given that blocking was the main impetus for placing PE at the centre of learning …
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Essays in organizational economics
… good by these parties' production decisions. The informativeness of the price mechanism affects the returns to specific investments and hence the optimal control structure for individual firms; meanwhile, the control structure choices by individual firms affect the informativeness of the price …
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The Impact of AI on Online Customer Experience and Consumer Behaviour. An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Online Customer Experience and Consumer Behaviour in a Digital Marketing and Online Retail Context
… on all three customer experience dimensions of informativeness, entertainment and social presence. Additionally, there is strong statistical support for the positive effect of informativeness and social presence on continued purchase intentions (β= .379 and β= .315), while the effects of …
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Product categorization and consumers' prior knowledge: implications for comparative advertising
… to the advertisements are collected for informativeness of the advertisement, extreme brand evaluations, confidence in evaluations and purchase intention. The results show that high as well as low familiarity consumers find the explicit comparative advertisements more informative than the …
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