When the Use of Positive Language Backfires: The Joint Effect of Tone, Readability, and Investor Sophistication on Earnings Judgments

By Hun-Tong Tan, E. Wang, Bo Zhou. 2013

230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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1. Hun-Tong Tan
2. E. Wang
3. Bo Zhou

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1. Hun-Tong Tan
2. E. Wang
3. Bo Zhou

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• How does readability influence investors' judgments? Consistency of benchmark performance matters (2015, background): “Following Tan et al. (2014), who find that investor sophistication can influence the effects of linguistic features on investors’ judgments under certain circumstances, we control for participants’ background information, and our results remain unchanged.”