Recent research suggests that the stock market reacts to stale information if it is reported in the media because it is gives the impression of being “new” news. The objective of this study is to provide a unique test of this hypothesis using the time-series properties of quarterly earnings....

We explore usefulness of a measure based on 10-K disclosures of firm-specific climate risk exposure. We find that our measure is negatively associated with firm value and positively associated with implied cost of capital and beta. Climate risk disclosure tone is significantly associated with...

Credit rating agencies (CRAs) have considerable privileged access to corporate management and are therefore a potentially important source of information to the equity market. We study how stock analysts incorporate bond ratings in their earnings forecasts. We develop an economic framework for...