Mary Brooke Billings

New York University

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Internal Control Weaknesses and Information Uncertainty

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Internal Control Weaknesses and Information Uncertainty

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 12 May 2014
Messod Daniel Beneish, Mary Brooke Billings and Leslie D. Hodder
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting, New York University and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
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earnings quality, information uncertainty, reporting credibility, Sarbanes-Oxley, audit quality, cost of capital, scaled securities regulation

Internal Control Weaknesses and Information Uncertainty

Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 19 Nov 2007
Messod Daniel Beneish, Mary Brooke Billings and Leslie D. Hodder
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting, New York University and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting

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Information uncertainty, reporting credibility, Sarbanes-Oxley, scaled securities regulation

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Liquidity, Voluntary disclosure, Earnings guidance, Information production, Management communication, Investor relations, Analyst coverage, Retail investors

Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31352
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Liquidity, Voluntary disclosure, Earnings guidance, Information production, Management communication, Investor relations, Analyst coverage, Retail investors

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Disclosure Timeliness, Insider Trading Opportunities and Litigation Consequences

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2008
Mary Brooke Billings
New York University
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voluntary disclosure, negative earnings news, securities litigation, insider trading

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Shareholder Class Action Suits and the Bond Market

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Shareholder Class Action Suits and the Bond Market

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 12 May 2011
Mary Brooke Billings, April Klein and Emanuel Zur
New York University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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litigation, bond pricing, bond trading

Shareholder Class Action Suits and the Bond Market

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Jan 2012
Mary Brooke Billings, April Klein and Emanuel Zur
New York University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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class action, Bond market

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Strategic Silence, Insider Selling and Litigation Risk

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2014
Mary Brooke Billings and Matthew C. Cedergren
New York University and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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disclosure, earnings guidance, insider trading, litigation risk, earnings disappointment, negative earnings news

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Does Litigation Change Managers’ Beliefs About the Value of Voluntarily Disclosing Bad News?

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 25 May 2019
Mary Brooke Billings, Matthew C. Cedergren and Svenja Dube
New York University, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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voluntary disclosure; litigation risk; class action lawsuits; earnings guidance

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The Option Market's Anticipation of Information Content in Earnings Announcements

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Mar 2011
Mary Brooke Billings and Robert H. Jennings
New York University and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
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information content of earnings announcements, options, volatility, institutional ownership, information environment, return-earnings relation

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31352
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 21 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31352
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

NBER Working Paper No. w18984
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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On Guidance and Volatility

Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 2014-15
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2014
Mary Brooke Billings, Robert H. Jennings and Baruch Lev
New York University, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and New York University - Stern School of Business
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disclosure, earnings guidance, volatility, information environment, material news items, earnings announcements

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Continuation Options and Returns-Earnings Convexity

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 19 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2011
Mary Brooke Billings, Matthew C. Cedergren and Stephen G. Ryan
New York University, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Continuation, real options, returns-earnings, convexity, financing, lifecycle, volatility

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When Does Pre-IPO Financial Reporting Trigger Post-IPO Legal Consequences?

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
Mary Brooke Billings and Melissa F. Lewis-Western
New York University and Brigham Young University - Marriott School of Business
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initial public offering, earnings management, litigation, IPO valuation, new economy

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Casual Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31614
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Continuation Call Options and the Sensitivity of Returns to Gains

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Sep 2012
Mary Brooke Billings, Matthew C. Cedergren and Stephen G. Ryan
New York University, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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continuation, real options, returns-earnings, sensitivity, gains, financing, failure, earnings growth