Creating a Fog: Can Plain English Be Used to Mislead Investors?

A recent growth in textual analysis research in the accounting and finance literature relies heavily on context to draw conclusions about the readability or sentiment of the text under study. Yet the complexity of the text used in the financial disclosure is also relevant in evaluating readability a...

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Main Author: Collins, Scott
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/71
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=cgu_etd