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Record W4414974563 · doi:10.1111/1911-3846.70010

On the valuation implications of unbundled disclosure

2025· article· en· W4414974563 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Xue Jia, Jeroen Suijs

Bibliographic record

VenueContemporary Accounting Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicAuditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityUniversity of MelbourneNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekErasmus Universiteit RotterdamUniversiteit van TilburgNorthwestern University
KeywordsCash flowValuation (finance)Private information retrievalStock (firearms)Free cash flowCapital allocation lineInformation asymmetryComponent (thermodynamics)

Abstract

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Abstract Firms with multiple pieces of information can disclose the information concurrently (bundled disclosure) or sequentially (unbundled disclosure). This paper examines the pricing implications of (un)bundled disclosure in a rational expectations equilibrium model. The model considers a firm whose liquidating cash flow consists of two components. Some investors possess private information about one component (e.g., earnings) and all investors are uninformed about the other component (e.g., unexpected events). We analyze three disclosure policies. In bundled disclosure, both cash flow components are disclosed concurrently; in unbundled disclosure, the informed cash flow component is disclosed early, and the uninformed component is disclosed later; and in alternative unbundled disclosure, the uninformed component is disclosed early, and the informed component later. We find that the disclosure policy influences the cost of capital prior to any disclosure through a risk allocation effect and a price informativeness effect. Unbundled disclosure results in a lower cost of capital compared to bundled disclosure, as it improves risk allocation and enhances the informativeness of the stock price prior to any disclosure. However, for alternative unbundled disclosure, the cost of capital can be higher or lower than that of the other disclosure policies. This is because late disclosure of the informed cash flow component alters investors' risk exposure to the noisy supply of shares, thereby influencing the risk allocation and price informativeness effects.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.026
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.027

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.007
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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