Value-at-risk, informativeness of earnings.

Our paper examines the relationship between S&P500 firms’ 10-K market risk disclosures in terms of Value-at-risk (VaR), mandated by SEC Financial Reporting Release No.48 in 1997, and the informativeness of earnings. Our results show that earnings informativeness decrease with the increasing magn...

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Main Authors: Lim, Benjamin Wan Heng., Wee, Wei Siang., Koh, Chin Meng.
Other Authors: Lim, Chee Yeow
Format: Final Year Project
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/8767
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
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Summary:Our paper examines the relationship between S&P500 firms’ 10-K market risk disclosures in terms of Value-at-risk (VaR), mandated by SEC Financial Reporting Release No.48 in 1997, and the informativeness of earnings. Our results show that earnings informativeness decrease with the increasing magnitude of the VaR figures disclosed.