The objective of voluntary disclosure regulation is to mitigate information asymmetry between the management and outside users. However, prior studies on voluntary disclosures provide mixed evidences on managers' incentives. Using a setting of voluntary non-GAAP EPS reporting, this study...

We develop a comprehensive measure of the quality of corporate financial communication. Net bad flows (NBF) captures bad news withholding and is calculable for all listed companies using daily stock return data. NBF indicates the relative lumpiness of bad news flows during the fiscal period. We...

We examine the role of voluntary corporate press releases about firms' financial performance as a stimulus for financial media coverage. We find that there is a spike of media articles on the same day and one trading day following firms' press releases. We provide evidence that managers compete...