This paper investigates the association of corporate reporting and executive network centrality, which measures an executive’s relative position in a massive network consisting of outside corporate leaders. I find that high-centrality chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial...

This study examines voluntary disclosure after successful technological innovations and the associated cost of equity capital (COEC) consequences. We find that firms with successful technological innovations, proxied by economic and scientific values of patents, are more likely to voluntarily...

We construct four voluntary disclosure and two mandatory disclosure measures for 260,880 firm-quarters from 2005 through 2016 using 8K data. The first voluntary disclosure measure is the count of 8Ks, a proxy used in prior studies. The second and third voluntary disclosure measures are the count...