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Professor Dr Andreas Barth

Professor Dr Andreas Barth
Current Position

since 2/23

Research Affiliate

Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association

since 4/22

Professor

Goethe University Frankfurt

Research Interests
  • financial economics
  • financial intermediation
  • international economics
  • corporate finance
  • financial stability

Andreas Barth ist seit Februar 2023 Research Affiliate am IWH. Seine Forschung befasst sich mit Finanzintermediation und Finanzstabilität.

Andreas Barth ist Professor an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

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Working Papers

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How to Talk Down Your Stock Performance

Andreas Barth Sasan Mansouri Fabian Wöbbeking Severin Zörgiebel

in: SSRN Discussion Papers, 2020

Abstract

We process the natural language of verbal firm disclosures in order to study the use of context specific language or jargon and its impact on financial performance. We observe that, within the Q&A of earnings conference calls, managers use less jargon in responses to tougher questions, and after a quarter of bad economic success. Moreover, markets interpret the lack of precise information as a bad signal: we find lower cumulative abnormal returns and a higher implied volatility following earnings calls where managers use less jargon. These results support the argument that context specific language or jargon helps to efficiently and precisely transfer information.

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