This study is to understand the current status of online sustainability reporting (SR) practices by Irish universities. The paper reveals that online SR is in its infancy at the sample universities and there is significant room for improvement. Irish universities have initiated using web-based...

This paper studies the general deterrence effect associated with regulatory enforcement actions, using data on the quality violations and regulatory enforcement records of all 141,290 active drinking water systems in the U.S. between 1980 and 2017. We find that general deterrence among drinking...

This paper studies the general deterrence effect associated with regulatory enforcement actions, using data on the quality violations and regulatory enforcement records of all 141,290 active drinking water systems in the U.S. between 1980 and 2017. We find that general deterrence among drinking...

This paper examines the implications of CEO overconfidence for firm distress risk and investment-related activities in the unique context of adverse incidents. I use an options‐based proxy for CEO overconfidence and study two types of adverse incidents: negative news reports and hurricanes....

This paper uses real options theories to examine how two types of uncertainty influence Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (sometimes operationalized as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)) activities, based on these activities’ unique features of enhancing revenue growth and...

We investigate the credit demand of individuals in areas narrowly missed by severe tornadoes. Leveraging detailed credit bureau data and a difference in differences matching model, we find that, compared with similar individuals far away from tornadoes, individuals living in areas neighboring...