A growing number of studies in western nations have found that an important component in improving the quality of end of life is to meet the care needs of individuals approaching death. Information on the cost of these care needs would be useful in determining how to reduce the burden on family...

This study investigates the hitherto unexplored questions of whether and how a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting (ICW) and its disclosure influence the occurrence of extreme negative outliers in stock return distributions, which we refer to as stock price crash risk....