% ============================================================================ % UQO Working Paper Template — Economics / Finance % ============================================================================ \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} % --- Encoding & Language --- \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} % --- Page Layout --- \usepackage[ letterpaper, top=1in, bottom=1in, left=1in, right=1in ]{geometry} % --- Math (amsthm must precede newtxmath) --- \usepackage{amsmath,amsthm} \usepackage{mathtools} \allowdisplaybreaks % --- Typography --- \usepackage{newtxtext} % Times text \usepackage[varvw,cmintegrals,cmbraces]{newtxmath} % matching Times math with proper metrics \usepackage{bm} % bold math for vectors \usepackage{dsfont} % \mathds{1} indicator \usepackage{microtype} % Improved typographic refinements \usepackage{setspace} \onehalfspacing % 1.5 line spacing % --- Math --- % --- Tables --- \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{threeparttable} \usepackage{siunitx} \sisetup{ input-symbols = {()}, table-format = -1.3, parse-numbers = false } % --- Figures --- \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{subcaption} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{adjustbox} % --- Colors & Links --- \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage[ pdftitle={The Invisible Balance Sheet}, pdfauthor={Simon-Pierre Boucher}, colorlinks = true, linkcolor = NavyBlue, citecolor = NavyBlue, urlcolor = NavyBlue, breaklinks = true ]{hyperref} % --- Bibliography --- \usepackage[authoryear,round,semicolon]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{aer} % --- Captions --- \usepackage[ font = small, labelfont = bf, labelsep = period, justification = justified, singlelinecheck = false ]{caption} % --- Headers & Footers --- \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % --- Section Formatting --- \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries}{\thesection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsection}{\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesubsection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsubsection}{\normalsize\itshape}{\thesubsubsection.}{0.5em}{} % --- Appendix Support --- \usepackage[toc,page]{appendix} % --- Misc --- \usepackage{enumitem} \setlist{nosep,leftmargin=*} % ============================================================================ % METADATA % ============================================================================ \input{results_macros} \newcommand{\WPnumber}{39} \newcommand{\WPtitle}{The Invisible Balance Sheet} \newcommand{\WPsubtitle}{Can Intraday Financial Markets Detect Corporate Deterioration Before Accounting Disclosures?} \newcommand{\WPdate}{November 2026} \newcommand{\WPversion}{1.0} \newcommand{\WPabstract}{\input{sections/abstract}} \newcommand{\WPkeywords}{intraday data, sampling frequency, earnings surprises, fundamental analysis, point-in-time data, machine learning, market efficiency} \newcommand{\WPjel}{G14, G12, G17, M41, C53, C58} % --- Author --- \newcommand{\WPauthor}{Simon-Pierre Boucher} \newcommand{\WPaffiliation}{% Département des sciences administratives\\ Université du Québec en Outaouais% } \newcommand{\WPemail}{simon-pierre.boucher@uqo.ca} \newcommand{\WPaddress}{% Gatineau -- Pavillon Alexandre-Taché\\ 283, boulevard Alexandre-Taché\\ Gatineau, Québec, Canada J9A 1L8% } % --- Notation macros (consistent symbols throughout) --- \newcommand{\E}{\mathbb{E}} \newcommand{\Prob}{\mathbb{P}} \newcommand{\ind}[1]{\mathds{1}\!\left[#1\right]} \newcommand{\Info}{\mathcal{I}} \newcommand{\Acc}{\mathcal{A}} \newcommand{\Loss}{\mathcal{L}} \newcommand{\LFDS}{\mathrm{LFDS}} \newcommand{\RV}{\mathrm{RV}} \newcommand{\BPV}{\mathrm{BPV}} \newcommand{\RS}{\mathrm{RS}} \newcommand{\TA}{\mathit{TA}} \newcommand{\dlog}{\Delta\Loss} \newcommand{\set}[1]{\left\{#1\right\}} \newcommand{\abs}[1]{\left\lvert#1\right\rvert} \newcommand{\tr}{^{\mkern-1.5mu\mathsf{T}}} \newcommand{\bgamma}{\bm{\gamma}} \newcommand{\bX}{\bm{X}} % ============================================================================ % DOCUMENT % ============================================================================ \begin{document} \input{sections/titlepage} \input{sections/introduction} \input{sections/theory_hypotheses} \input{sections/literature} \input{sections/data} \input{sections/methodology} \input{sections/results} \input{sections/mechanisms} \input{sections/robustness} \input{sections/conclusion} \newpage \bibliography{references} \input{appendix/appendix} \end{document}