Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosures: Dynamic Interactions

Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last revised: 4 Jun 2018

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Date Written: March 31, 2018

Abstract

Firms sometimes obtain soft private information about growth prospects along with hard information about current or past performance. In this environment, we find that optimizing disclosures over multiple periods yields nonlinear stock price reactions following both voluntary and mandatory disclosures. Further, we derive several predictions about distinct short-run and long-run effects of disclosures and nondisclosures on security prices. Under specified conditions, when the volatility of the firm’s earnings increases, the average contemporaneous and prospective post-mandatory disclosure market premia (for voluntary disclosures over nondisclosures) rise, while farther-in-future market discounts (for such voluntary disclosures) also become larger. Our analysis moreover predicts that both the disclosure probability and the information content of nondisclosures can increase in the persistence of earnings.

Keywords: mandatory disclosure, voluntary disclosure, dynamic, multiple periods, growth, signaling, hard and soft information

JEL Classification: D21, D82, D83, G14, M41

Suggested Citation

Cianciaruso, Davide and Sridharan, Swaminathan, Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosures: Dynamic Interactions (March 31, 2018). Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming, HEC Paris Research Paper No. ACC-2018-1278, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3153799 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3153799

Davide Cianciaruso (Contact Author)

HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department ( email )

Jouy-en-Josas
France

Swaminathan Sridharan

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management ( email )

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