... Area, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Editor's note: Accepted by Steven S. Salterio, under the Senior Editorship of W. Robert Knechel. 07 06 2022 01 03 2023 08 03 2023 2023 information avoidance information acquisition financial technology securities-based crowdfunding...

... School of Business, Department of Accounting, Waltham, MA, USA. Supplemental material is available, as linked in the text. Editor’s note: Accepted by William J. Mayew. 14 05 2020 15 08 2022 17 08 2022 2023 conference calls information acquisition access...

... information acquisition due to reduced communication with colleagues. On the other hand, telecommuting may facilitate information acquisition due to relaxed time pressure (via not having to commute) and increased attentional resources (via quieter and uninterrupted working environments). I find employees...

...Stephen Glaeser; Bryce Schonberger; Charles E. Wasley; Jason J. Xiao ABSTRACT There is limited evidence about when, why, and which individuals incur costs to acquire nonpublic information about a firm, largely due to the difficulty of observing private information acquisition. To overcome...

... aggressive in information acquisition. The paper fully characterizes the equilibrium—the firm's investments, the supplier's information acquisition and reporting decisions, and the terms of trade—to demonstrate that often-maligned internal bloat can be an endogenous facilitator of efficient outsourcing...

...Charles M. C. Lee; Edward M. Watts ABSTRACT This study examines how an increase in tick size affects algorithmic trading (AT), fundamental information acquisition (FIA), and the price discovery process around earnings announcements (EAs). Leveraging the SEC's randomized Tick Size Pilot experiment...

... of this performance. Using a database of EDGAR downloads, we find some evidence that information acquisition of accounting reports by EDGAR users is, on average, predictive of future firm performance. We then determine the identity of the EDGAR user and examine whether different users' private expectations...