Article
Voluntary disclosure and market competition: Theory and evidence from the U.S. services sector
Research in International Business and Finance
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. This paper analyses a firm's incentives to disclose private information about market demand and its cost when there is a potential market entrant. A partially pooling disclosure equilibrium exists in which high demand-high cost and low demand-high cost types of firms are nontransparent in the case of risky debt issuance. I use a sample of U.S. service firms to test the theoretical predictions. Consistent with the model's implications, among low-debt service firms those that are high demand-high cost are likely to avoid information disclosure, whereas among high-debt firms those that are high demand-high cost and low demand-high cost are less likely to disclose private information.
DOI Link
10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.08.009
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Disciplines
Keywords
- Analyst forecast,
- Leverage,
- Market competition,
- Voluntary disclosure
Scopus ID
85052846002
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.08.009
Citation Information
Eda Orhun. "Voluntary disclosure and market competition: Theory and evidence from the U.S. services sector" Research in International Business and Finance Vol. 47 (2019) p. 354 - 370 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0275-5319" target="_blank">0275-5319</a> Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eda-orhun/9/