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- Title
MINING RISK-RELATED SENTIMENT IN CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORTS AND ITS EFFECT ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE.
- Authors
MYŠKOVÁ, Renáta; HÁJEK, Petr
- Abstract
Models that predict corporate financial risk are important early-warning systems for corporate stakeholders. Most models to date have been developed using financial indicators. However, in financial decision-making, increasing attention is being paid to the role of textual information, which may provide additional insight into managerial opinions and intentions and which has recently been used to more effectively predict corporate financial performance. Previous approaches in this regard have predominantly focused on sentiment analysis of managerial communication. However, the role of context-related sentiment remains poorly understood in the financial risk domain. Here, we investigate how risk-related sentiment in verbal managerial communication might predict corporate financial performance, including indebtedness, profitability, market value and bankruptcy risk. To ensure deductive content validity, we propose specific word lists for each type of corporate financial risk and assign each word with positive / negative labels. Our findings provide evidence for a major role of risk-related sentiment as an indicator of corporate performance in terms of financial risks. Notably, using novel risk-related word lists in regression models, we show that a proactive and opportunity-seeking risk management has a significantly positive impact on financial performance, implying that stakeholders should carefully consider the risk-related managerial communication in corporate annual reports.
- Subjects
CORPORATION reports; FINANCIAL performance; FINANCIAL statements; FINANCIAL risk; ECONOMIC indicators; ENVIRONMENTAL reporting; LABELS
- Publication
Technological & Economic Development of Economy, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 6, p1422
- ISSN
2029-4913
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3846/tede.2020.13758