Haftungserleichterungen bei der Offenlegung von Zukunftsinformationen in den USA

Christopher Koch ()

No 04-33, Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications from Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim

Abstract: After having forbidden companies to provide financial forecasts until 1973, the SEC now encourages them to do so because of the relevance of prognosis for investors. As forecasts are inherently uncertain, there is always the risk for the companies to be suit when predictions fail. Therefore the US courts have developed safe harbors, like the bespeaks caution doctrine or corporate puffery defense which are discussed in this paper along with the fraud on the market doctrine. The jurisdiction about this topic is presented and criticized by economic and behavioral economic arguments. In the conclusion the conflict between warranting the safe harbor mainly for immaterial information while having the goal of providing relevant information to investors is addressed.

Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2004-08-03
Note: Financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, SFB 504, at the University of Mannheim, is gratefully acknowledged. I thank Christina Reifschneider for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sfb504.uni-mannheim.de/publications/dp04-33.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:xrs:sfbmaa:04-33

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications from Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim Contact information at EDIRC., Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Carsten Schmidt ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).