We introduce the decomposition of carbon emissions into an expected and an unexpected component and analyze the association between these components and firm value. The expected component captures a firm's average carbon emissions inherent to its business model and operating environment. The...

We introduce the decomposition of carbon emissions into an expected and an unexpected component and analyze the association between these components and firm value. The expected component captures a firm's average carbon emissions inherent to its business model and operating environment. The...

Firms' decisions to prepare and to publish private information are key issues in disclosure research. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) provides a unique setting that allows us to examine the determinants of these two sequential disclosure decisions, first to respond to the CDP questionnaire...

Purpose: Based on a hedonic regression approach, the purpose of this paper is to relativize existing green pay off evidence by incorporating Super Trophy as a so far underrepresented determinant. The authors analyze a private panel database of 160 European office properties and confirm a...

Corporate reporting further develops towards integrating separate financial and non-financial reports into a single corporate report. The introduction of the Integrated Reporting (IR) framework represents a major milestone in this development. This study examines the investors' perceptions of...

The first convergence project of IASB and FASB created the widely equivalent international and U.S. accounting standards for business combinations IFRS 3 and SFAS 141. The purchase price must be allocated to identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed with the residual amount recognized...