We exploit the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a source of variation in the demand for environmental information to study the economic consequences of environmental disclosure. Using a large, hand-collected sample of Japanese firms, we find that firms that issue stand-alone environmental reports...

This study investigates the social and environmental disclosure practices of socially responsible Chinese listed firms as displayed in their annual reports and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports from the perspective of stakeholders. A stakeholder-driven, three-dimensional social and...

Using the staggered introduction of 87 country-level regulations that mandate firms to report specific environmental or social (E&S) information, I document that disclosure of financially immaterial E&S information has material effects on firms' investment and financing decisions. Firms...

Companies worldwide increasingly engaged in corporate social responsibility disclosure, particularly corporate environmental disclosure (CED) has gained increasing importance since the 1980s. Reporting environmental performance has become a fundamental corporate governance mechanism to improve...

In recent decades, environmental issues have emerged as a topic of increasing importance in the accounting literature. Environmental matters associated with industrial activities have increased public concerns about both financial and non-financial performance of firms leading to arising...

This study aims to analyze the effects of voting ownership concentration on the social and environmental disclosure of Brazilian companies in their Annual Financial Statements. Econometric models are estimated considering a sample of 1,252 annual observations of 252 companies in the period...