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Reporting bias in incomplete information model

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  • Peat, Maurice
  • Svec, Jiri
  • Wang, Jue

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Company financial reports are likely to be systematically biased. In this paper, we extend the Duffie and Lando (2001) model with a skewness correction which can account for both random and directional components of reporting noise.

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  • Peat, Maurice & Svec, Jiri & Wang, Jue, 2014. "Reporting bias in incomplete information model," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 123(1), pages 45-49.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:123:y:2014:i:1:p:45-49
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.021
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    Keywords

    Credit risk; Incomplete information; Reporting bias; Skew normal;
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    JEL classification:

    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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