Lobbying, ESG reporting, Non-financial disclosure, Hong KongThis study investigates the valuation and real effects of the mandatory disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission costs from the perspective of "double materiality." We consider a firm with a Cobb-Douglas production function that...

We examine the relationships with firm performance of the internal pay gap among individual members of the top management team (TMT) and the compensation level of TMT members relative to their industry peers. We find that pay gap is positively related to firm performance and that this positive...