Labor protection increases employees' stability and strengthens their monitoring role, improving firms' information environment and increasing analysts' earnings forecast accuracy. Using the implementation of China's Labor Contract Law as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that labor protection...

We investigate how product market competition affects corporate voluntary disclosure decisions, specifically regarding supply-chain information. Our results, based on a sample of manufacturing companies listed in China from 2010 to 2016, show that companies in more competitive industries...