Authors:

  • George Serafeim

Excerpt

Speaking of the short-term: disclosure horizon and managerial myopia. George Serafeim, March 12, 2015, Paper. "We study conference calls as a voluntary disclosure channel and create a proxy for the time horizon that senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives’ short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized during conference calls partially capturing short-termism, we show that our proxy is associated with earnings and..." Link