This study examines the relationship between information disclosures and firm value under different levels of product market competition. Using a unique information rating scheme that draws from 114 measures over five dimensions of information disclosure from 2005 to 2013, we find that firms...

Research Question/Issue: La Porta et al. (2000) examine the impact of corporate governance on dividend policies by testing two hypotheses, the outcome hypothesis and the substitution hypothesis. The former argues that firms with better governance may pay higher dividends to mitigate agency...