In the face of the increasing frequency of climate change-related natural hazards and the resulting losses across the globe, companies are recognizing the importance of addressing climate-related risks and opportunities and taking timely actions to cope with them. While numerous large companies...

This research aims to broaden the understanding of the determinants of climate change disclosure, where the study analyzes the impact of corporate business strategy and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) overconfidence on the level of climate change disclosure. The study followed a mixed-methods...

This paper explores the impact of bank transparency on market efficiency by comparing banks that disclose supervisory capital requirements to those that remain opaque. Due to the informational content of supervisory capital requirements for the market this opacity might hinder market efficiency....

This study investigates whether and how managers respond to major negative news by increasing the information content of their MD&A disclosures. We predict that major negative news influences managers' disclosure decisions by increasing legitimacy pressures and reducing opportunities to obscure...

We study the effects of bank transparency on both banks' asset and liquidity risks, and ultimately, on banking sector stability and welfare. We show how enhanced bank transparency increases banks' vulnerability to excessive deposit outflows, but this threat of a liquidity crisis incentivizes...

We study the design of market information in competing-mechanism games. We identify a new dimension, private disclosures, whereby the principals asymmetrically inform the agents of how their mechanisms operate. We show that private disclosures have two important effects. First, they can raise a...

This paper explores the impact of bank transparency on market efficiency by comparing banks that disclose supervisory capital requirements to those that remain opaque. Due to the informational content of supervisory capital requirements for the market this opacity might hinder market efficiency....

This paper examines the impact of audit quality and internal corporate governance mechanisms on segment disclosure. It uses manual content analysis to measure the levels of disclosure for a sample of Egyptian-listed companies from 2015 to 2023. It provides evidence that audit quality, joint...

Purpose - The stock exchanges in China assess firms' disclosure quality annually according to a grading sheet. The grading sheet evaluates mandatory and voluntary disclosures, investor relations, and compliance with and violations of securities laws; some items are publicly observable, others...

Using a regulation that increased portfolio disclosure frequency of US mutual funds as an exogenous shock shortening funds' investment horizon, we examine whether and how affected funds influence portfolio firms to achieve horizon realignment after the shock. We find that portfolio firms reduce...