This paper presents large-sample evidence that firms consider labor unemployment risk when setting their resource adjustment policies. Prior studies find that costs rise more in response to sales increases than they fall in response to sales decreases. Anderson, Banker, and Janakiraman (2003)...

This paper finds statistically significant evidence that adopting Director Nomination Eligibility Criteria (DNEC) mitigates stock price crash risk. We hand-collect DNEC information from thousands of Chinese corporate charters and measure its impact on stock price crash risk over time....

This study examines the effect of litigation risk on the readability of corporate financial reports using the 1999 Silicon Graphics Inc. court ruling as a natural experiment. This ruling unexpectedly reduced the litigation risk of firms located in the states of the Ninth Circuit Court (treated...

This paper examines whether the tone of corporate textual disclosures related to risk and uncertainty conveys relevant information to the credit default swap (CDS) market. Prior studies largely focus on the amount of risk disclosures and provide inconclusive evidence on the usefulness of risk...

This study shows that less readable 10-K reports are associated with higher stock price crash risk. The results are consistent with the argument that managers can successfully hide adverse information by writing complex financial reports, which leads to stock price crashes when the hidden bad...

This paper finds statistically significant evidence that adopting Director Nomination Eligibility Criteria (DNEC) mitigates stock price crash risk. We hand-collect whether a firm adopts DNEC or not from thousands of Chinese corporate charters and measure its impact on stock price crash risk over...