Henry L. Friedman

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management

Associate Professor

110 Westwood Plaza

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481

United States

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Scholarly Papers (32)

1.

A Theoretical Framework for ESG Reporting to Investors

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2021
Henry L. Friedman, Mirko Stanislav Heinle and Irina Luneva
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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ESG reporting, ESG valuation, real effects

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Economic Uncertainty and Investor Attention

Proceedings of the EUROFIDAI-ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting 2022
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 04 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 02 May 2023
Daniel Andrei, Henry L. Friedman and N. Bugra Ozel
McGill University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
Downloads 1,193 (36,941)
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Investor attention; Economic uncertainty; Earnings announcements; CAPM

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Technological Investment and Accounting: A Demand-Side Perspective on Accounting Enrollment Declines

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2024
Henry L. Friedman, Andrew Sutherland and Felix Vetter
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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JEL Classification: M41, M42, J24, J44, G30, O33 accounting, finance, technology, automation, labor markets

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Common Ownership, Executive Compensation, and Product Market Competition

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2023
Matthew J. Bloomfield, Henry L. Friedman and Hwa Young Kim
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Downloads 887 (56,283)
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Common ownership, competition, executive compensation, strategic delegation

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The Strategic CFO? Implications of the CFO's Role and Responsibilities

AAA 2015 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2015
Henry L. Friedman
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 883 (56,519)
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CFO, responsibilities, role, collaboration

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Retail Investor Trading and Market Reactions to Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 08 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2024
Henry L. Friedman and Zitong Zeng
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 776 (67,366)
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Retail investors; Earnings announcements; Stock returns; ERC; PEAD

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The Role of Information in Building a More Sustainable Economy: A Supply and Demand Perspective

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Feb 2024
Henry L. Friedman and Gaizka Ormazabal
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
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Sustainability reporting, Sustainability disclosure, ESG, CSR

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Interested Investors and Intermediaries: When do ESG Concerns Lead to ESG Performance?

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
Henry L. Friedman and Mirko Stanislav Heinle
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Asset management, investor preferences, asset pricing, corporate social responsibility, impact investing

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Lobbying and Uniform Disclosure Regulation

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2016
Henry L. Friedman and Mirko Stanislav Heinle
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
Downloads 636 (86,908)
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Disclosure, Regulation, Lobbying

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Taste, Information, and Asset Prices: Implications for the Valuation of CSR

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2016
Henry L. Friedman and Mirko Stanislav Heinle
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
Downloads 575 (98,854)
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asset pricing, taste, reporting, corporate social responsibility

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Optimal Reporting When Additional Information Might Arrive

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Volume 69(2-3)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2020
Henry L. Friedman, John S. Hughes and Beatrice Michaeli
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Downloads 553 (104,492)
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Bayesian persuasion, discretionary disclosure, mandatory disclosure, verifiable messages, commitment

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Implications of Power: When the CEO Can Pressure the CFO to Bias Reports

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Jun 2014
Henry L. Friedman
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 545 (105,690)
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reporting, bias, countervailing incentives, CEO power

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Implications of introducing investor-focused ESG reporting

The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming, HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 14 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2024
Henry L. Friedman, Mirko Stanislav Heinle and Irina Luneva
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 437 (138,085)
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ESG reporting, ESG valuation, real effects JEL Classification: G11, G23, G34, M14, M40

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Capital Market Consequences of the Libor Scandal and Phaseout for Public Borrowers

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2020
Jonathan Berkovitch, Henry L. Friedman and Daniel Saavedra
Luiss Guido Carli University - Department of Business and Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and UCLA Anderson School of Management
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LIBOR scandal, LIBOR phaseout, debt contracting, incomplete contracting

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Climate-Related Attention in Capital Markets: Evidence from China’s Carbon Neutrality Pledge Announcement

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2023
Henry L. Friedman, Kanyuan (Kevin) Huang and Kaiwen Wu
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of Accountancy
Downloads 411 (148,207)
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ESG, climate-related disclosure, net-zero pledges

Capital Market Development and Confidence in Disclosure Quality

Journal of Financial Reporting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2019
Henry L. Friedman
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 359 (170,816)
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confidence; disclosure quality; international accounting; equity market development; credit market development

Capital Market Development and Confidence in Disclosure Quality

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Jan 2017
Henry L. Friedman
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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confidence; disclosure quality, equity market development, credit market development

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Implications of Biased Reporting: Conservative and Liberal Accounting Policies in Oligopolies

Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 10 May 2019
Henry L. Friedman, John S. Hughes and Richard E. Saouma
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles and Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
Downloads 398 (153,720)
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Conservatism, Optimal Information Systems, Cournot, Duopoly

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Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 May 2009
Gavin Cassar and Henry L. Friedman
INSEAD and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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entrepreneur, investment, risk preferences, self-efficacy, venturing

Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2009
Posted: 08 Jul 2009
Gavin Cassar and Henry L. Friedman
INSEAD and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management

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entrepreneur, investment, self-efficacy, venturing

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Disclosure Standards and the Sensitivity of Returns to Mood

Review of Financial Studies (doi: 10.1093/rfs/hhv054)
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 21 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2015
Brian J. Bushee and Henry L. Friedman
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 387 (158,543)
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Disclosure standards, Mood, Return noise, Susceptible investors

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Investor Preference for Director Characteristics: Portfolio Choice with Gender Bias

The Accounting Review (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2019
Henry L. Friedman
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 369 (167,282)
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Investor taste; Director characteristics; Gender bias; Portfolio Choice; Foreign funds

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How Is the Audit Market Affected by Characteristics of the Non-Audit Services Market?

29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting 2018
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2021
Henry L. Friedman and Lucas Mahieux
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
Downloads 363 (170,366)
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Audit quality, Auditing services, Non-audit services, Competition

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A Rationale for Imperfect Reporting Standards

Management Science, forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 06 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2020
Henry L. Friedman, John S. Hughes and Beatrice Michaeli
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Downloads 362 (170,866)
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information gathering, financial reporting, disclosure

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How portfolio disclosure impacts monitoring spillovers between competing asset managers

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2024
Henry L. Friedman and Lucas Mahieux
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
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Asset managers, Competition, Corporate governance, Portfolio disclosure, Monitoring

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Financial Reporting Quality and Noise in Stock Returns: Evidence from Chinese A-B Twin Shares

Journal of Financial Reporting, Forthcoming https://doi.org/10.2308/JFR-2019-0019
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 15 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2020
Liang Ma, Tao Ma and Henry L. Friedman
University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, Texas Tech University - Area of Accounting and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 274 (229,664)
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Financial Reporting Quality, Noise in Stock Returns, Stock Market Efficiency, A-B Twin Shares, Chinese Stock Market

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Influence Activities, Coalitions, and Uniform Policies: Implications for the Regulation of Financial Institutions

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2019
Henry L. Friedman and Mirko Stanislav Heinle
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
Downloads 246 (256,064)
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Lobbies, Coalitions, One-Size-Fits-All, Regulation

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Organization Capital (OC) and Information Asymmetry: Evidence from OC Decomposition

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 May 2023 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2023
Muskan Chawla, Henry L. Friedman and Jessica Kim-Gina
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Accounting Area
Downloads 221 (284,005)
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intangible capital, information asymmetry, knowledge capital, organization capital, insider trading, disclosure

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Implications of a Multi-Purpose Reporting System on CEO and CFO Incentives and Risk Preferences

Journal of Management Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2023
Henry L. Friedman
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 220 (285,190)
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Reporting, bias, CEO, CFO, risk aversion

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The Effect of the Mandatory Disclosure of Corporate Tax Returns on Reporting Bias

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2024
Eric J. Allen, Henry L. Friedman and Aydin Uysal
University of California, Riverside (UCR) - School of Business Administration, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and The Charles Schwab Corporation
Downloads 219 (286,434)
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taxation, bias, disclosure, mandatory disclosure of tax returns, book-tax difference

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A Rationale for Imperfect Reporting Standards

Management Science, forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2020
Henry L. Friedman, John S. Hughes and Beatrice Michaeli
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Downloads 164 (372,490)

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information gathering, financial reporting, disclosure

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How Does Management Guidance Affect Investors' Responses to Earnings Announcements?

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Aug 2024
Henry L. Friedman, Kanyuan (Kevin) Huang, Kaiwen Wu and Zitong Zeng
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of Accountancy and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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earnings announcements, market quality, investor attention, mandatory disclosure, management guidance

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Fixing the Proprietary Cost Assumption in Discretionary Disclosure Models

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Jul 2023
Henry L. Friedman
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Discretionary disclosure, proprietary costs JEL Codes: D21, G32, M41

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How Is the Audit Market Affected by Characteristics of the Nonaudit Services Market?

Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 59, Issue 3, 2021
Posted: 25 Jun 2021
Henry L. Friedman and Lucas Mahieux
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management

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audit quality; auditing services; nonaudit services; competition