Siew Hong Teoh
Lee and Seymour Graff Endowed Professor; Professor of Accounting
About
Siew Hong Teoh studies how the content, form of presentation and timing of disclosure of accounting information affect firm values, manager and investor behavior and economic welfare. Her current research introduces the visual attention hypothesis: that visuals in firm earnings announcements increase investor attention to earnings news. She and her colleagues find that when visuals attract investor attention to a firm’s earnings announcements on Twitter, investors respond more strongly to the information in valuing the firm
Topics
11 Articles
One Way to Spot Red Flags in Companies’ Financials
Comparing search volume with reported revenue could help auditors and others identify companies that are likely to have future restatements, researchers find
Tweets with Visuals Bring a 2% Stock-Price Boost — Temporarily
SEC encourages graphics in disclosures, but this practice may help executives more than shareholders
Male Stock Analysts With ‘Dominant’ Faces Get More Information—and Have Better Forecasts
Women analysts with perceived dominant faces, however, are at a competitive disadvantage, a study suggests
How a Stock Analyst’s Face Affects Their Earning Estimates
Trustworthy and dominant-seeming men: access to corporate management. Dominant-seeming women: not so much.
Tracking Product Trademarks Expands Understanding of Innovation
R&D outlays and patents alone don’t effectively measure corporate creativity
What Limited Attention Does to Efficient Market Theory
Stocks don’t react to news immediately because, well, we’re human
An Underappreciated Investing Tip: Check the Trademark Filings
A new study suggests that companies with relatively high trademark filings earn higher future profits
Let’s All Say a Good Word for ‘Overvalued’ Companies
A study finds that the companies with highly priced stocks are the ones that are more willing to take on potentially groundbreaking projects
Underappreciated Investment Edge: Company Trademark Filings
Not part of financial reporting, trademark activity predicts stock returns
Firms with Pricey Stocks Tend to Swing for the Fences in R&D
An innovative upside to overvalued stocks?