2013
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2207173
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The Effect of Investor Status on Investors’ Susceptibility to Earnings Fixation

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“…H1 predicts that, when investors have access to the narrative report format, the company's fundamentals are easier to access and to process due to the connectivity characteristics between information cues from financial sources (i.e., financial statements, notes and KPIs). In this sense, the prospective investors will be able to identify the company's expectation of future cash flows (Harris et al, 2016) with lower demand on the working memory through the reduction of extraneous load. Considering the extant literature indicating that there is an asymmetric perception of potential gains and losses (Kahneman & Tversky, 1984;Tversky & Kahneman, 1992), the investment propensity for the narrative format presenting a bad financial performance condition will be more pronounced when compared to the good financial performance condition.…”
Section: Attribution Theory Cognitive Load Memory and Hypotheses Devmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…H1 predicts that, when investors have access to the narrative report format, the company's fundamentals are easier to access and to process due to the connectivity characteristics between information cues from financial sources (i.e., financial statements, notes and KPIs). In this sense, the prospective investors will be able to identify the company's expectation of future cash flows (Harris et al, 2016) with lower demand on the working memory through the reduction of extraneous load. Considering the extant literature indicating that there is an asymmetric perception of potential gains and losses (Kahneman & Tversky, 1984;Tversky & Kahneman, 1992), the investment propensity for the narrative format presenting a bad financial performance condition will be more pronounced when compared to the good financial performance condition.…”
Section: Attribution Theory Cognitive Load Memory and Hypotheses Devmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also, we have included two financial performances for each presentation format (superior performance versus financial distress situation - Harris, Hobson, & Jackson, 2016). Each subject has seen just one condition, which characterizes the experiment as a 2X2 betweensubject design (Smith, 2011).…”
Section: Experimental Design Internal and External Validitiesmentioning
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