Document Type
Contribution to Book
Language
eng
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Emerald
Source Publication
Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research
Source ISSN
978178441635
Abstract
This study investigates how disclosure of the board of directors’ leadership and role in risk oversight (BODs oversight disclosure) influences investors’ judgments when information on risk exposures is disclosed. The theoretical lens through which we examine this issue involves negativity bias. Sixty-two stock market investors who engage in the evaluation and/or investment of stocks on a regular or professional basis participated in our study. Our results reveal that the addition of BODs oversight disclosure (positive information) does not carry significant weight on investor judgments (i.e., attractiveness and investment) when financial statement disclosures indicate a high level of operational and financial risk exposures (negative information). In contrast, under the condition of a low level of risk exposures, BODs oversight disclosure causes investors to assess higher risk in terms of worry, catastrophic potentials and unfamiliarity about risk information and, in turn, make less favorable investor judgments. Our findings add to the literature on negativity bias and contribute to the debate on the usefulness of disclosures about risk.
Recommended Citation
Suh, Ikseon and Ugrin, Joseph, "Negativity Bias in Investors’ Reactions to Board of Directors’ Risk Oversight Disclosure" (2015). Accounting Faculty Research and Publications. 95.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/account_fac/95
Comments
Accepted version. "Negativity Bias in Investors’ Reactions to Board of Directors’ Risk Oversight Disclosure" in Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research. Ed. Donna Bobek Schmitt. UK: Emerald 2015: 33-68. DOI. This article is © Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here. Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.