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JOURNAL OF FINANCE
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 1-43Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2011.01705.x
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We measure managerial affective states during earnings conference calls by analyzing conference call audio files using vocal emotion analysis software. We hypothesize and find that, when managers are scrutinized by analysts during conference calls, positive and negative affects displayed by managers are informative about the firm's financial future. Analysts do not incorporate this information when forecasting near-term earnings. When making stock recommendation changes, however, analysts incorporate positive but not negative affect. This study presents new evidence that managerial vocal cues contain useful information about a firm's fundamentals, incremental to both quantitative earnings information and qualitative soft information conveyed by linguistic content.
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