Many companies in Germany must provide information beyond financial figures in their annual reports. For some years now, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether corporate governance is an important and effective technique for enhancing investors' confidence in existing and prospective companies and for creating opportunities for safe investment in Yemen. A survey was conducted among certified public...

This study aims to analyze the influence of audit committee characteristics and intellectual capital performance on intellectual capital disclosure. Characteristics of the audit used in this research are the size of the audit committee, the Number of audit committee meetings, and the financial...

Private Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) is a measure against tax avoidance by large multinationals, implemented throughout the EU in 2016. Multinational companies with an annual revenue over € 750 million have been required to report their global activities on a country-by-country basis to...

This paper develops a simple model to explore whether a higher detection probability for offshore tax evaders-e.g., because of improved exchange of information between countries and/or due to digitalization of tax administrations-renders it optimal for governments to introduce a voluntary...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyse the key audit matters (KAMs) being reported in South Africa by assessing 356 Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed entities' audit reports from 2017 to 2020, which entailed 1424 audit reports and 2903 KAM disclosures. Design/methodology/approach:...

The issue of trust-based personal data disclosure online remains of high importance both in social networking and online purchasing. Additionally, social networking is linked with a controversial factor of conspiracy beliefs that recently received attention because of Covid-19 pandemic....

This paper investigates the effect of mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) of Chinese listed companies. Employing the propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DID) methods to alleviate endogeneity concerns,...

Climate change can be a source of financial risk. This paper examines how credit rating agencies accepted by the Eurosystem incorporate climate change risk in their credit ratings. It also analyses how rating agencies disclose their assessments of climate change risks to rating users. The paper...

This paper investigates the impact of firm-level green innovation on corporate carbon emissions disclosure. I construct an instrumental variable to correct the endogeneity of voluntary disclosure by exploiting the “eBay v. MercExchange” Supreme Court decision in 2006, which is an exogenous...

This study examines a reputation-concerned entrepreneur’s incentives to provide disaggregated information about a project’s future performance when he seeks to increase both the market price of the project and the market assessment of his ability as a project manager. Two factors determine...

We study the effects of the 2008 crisis and Basel III guidelines on the content of the financial reports of Israeli banks, which are highly regulated and follow the Basel guidelines. Our findings, based on LDA topic modeling and term frequency, indicate that already at the time of the crisis...

Does waste disclosure really work? This study investigates the effect of waste disclosure on corporate governance. The results highlight a significant and positive relationship among board gender, independent board directors, sustainability committee, and verification of waste disclosure....

Relative to the explicit role of corporate information disclosure in reducing the cost of equity capital, the role of strategic information disclosure (SID) is still in disorder in the literature. We aim to provide empirical evidence for the relationship between SID and the cost of equity...

We examine whether board gender diversity promotes high-quality non-GAAP disclosures. Specifically, we use two recently-developed measures that capture key characteristics of financial reporting quality, namely consistency and comparability in non-GAAP reporting. We find that gender-diverse...

The Internet Appendix provides examples of the CEO pay ratio disclosure and media coverage surrounding the CEO pay ratio disclosure, the description of entropy balancing program, the procedure for decomposing the pay ratio into predicted and unexpected components, summary statistics for...

We examine misreporting of gender pay gap information. Beginning in 2017, the UK government mandated that UK employers report gender employment ratios and pay gaps. The mandate does not include an audit requirement and has received little regulatory enforcement. Nonetheless, supporters of the...

The article deals with bank secrecy and the customer's right to financial privacy from a constitutional point of view. It contends that despite the great importance of the right to financial privacy, various interests may override it and justify a mandatory disclosure of information. The article...

This research examines the relationship between the risk management committee and textual risk disclosure. Textual risk disclosure is measured using the use of a risk-contained tone in the annual report. We employed empirical analysis for the Indonesian listed firms for the period 2010 to 2018....

This paper studies the effects of a firm’s financial performance (FP) and chief executive officer’s (CEO) duality on the quality of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in the context of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) among Chinese A-share-registered companies. The results depict...

This paper aims at analyzing the impact of corporate environmental information disclosure from the perspective of investors. To that end, we have collected environmental information disclosure data of all Chinese listed companies from 2004 to 2020 and controlled the impacts of annual reports on...

Universities are expected to have a leading role in the advancement, promotion, and achievement of the 2030 UN Agenda, embedding the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across their four dimensions (teaching, research, campus operations and governance, and community outreach) and in their...

This paper sheds further light on the role of quantification in corporate environmental disclosures. Quantification is an inherently social practice, which has attracted a fair amount of academic interest in recent years. At the same time, in the field of social and environmental accounting...

This paper aims to research the topics related to risk included in non-financial disclosure (NFD) of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and explore factors that influence the risk topics ratio in NFD. We applied a content analysis using topic modeling to discover latent risk...

Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...

This paper investigates the implication of correlation ambiguity to investor behavior, asset pricing and issuers' listing choices from a market microstructure perspective. We introduce two markets to a multi-asset model: Market A is transparent and Market B is opaque, or Market A with low and...