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suggest new management strategies to financial market participants relative to those based on carbon intensity. ESG disclosure … than disclosure of carbon intensity …
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Insiders can artificially deflect the market prices of financial instruments from their full-information or inside value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit...
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disclosures. Prior research questions whether the Act improved disclosure quality but generally relies on long-window tests and … treatment firms (which withheld disclosure before the Act) than for control firms. The increase in informativeness is more …
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We examine the real effects of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) on electric power plants in the United States. Starting in 2010, the GHGRP requires both the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by facilities emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to the...
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Disclosure--the practice of providing information to support decision making--has been widely mandated in public policy … consumer financial disclosure stems from lab experiments where subjects do not have competing demands on their attention or … experimental variation is designed to allow us to examine the importance of each in inhibiting effective disclosure. Despite the …
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inferences based on both the data seen as well as the consumer's disclosure choices, the strategic implications of this proposal … and no personalized pricing. This result is driven by two ideas. First, consumers can use disclosure to amplify … concessions. Furthermore, whether consumer control improves consumer surplus depends on both the technology of disclosure and the …
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In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations … industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure requirements expose valuable trade secrets. Our research design takes … advantage of a unique regulatory history that allows us to see complete information on chemical inputs prior to disclosure …
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This paper analyzes how corporate disclosure has been reshaped by machine processors, employed by algorithmic traders … quantify qualitative information from disclosure and news, this study is the first to identify and analyze the feedback effect … on corporate disclosure decisions, i.e., how companies adjust the way they talk knowing that machines are listening …
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gas emissions disclosure in all public firms. Consistent with our theory, we find that firms in the UK receive lower CSR … mandatory disclosure requirements. We also perform a number of robustness checks and explore the interaction between oversight …
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This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing … quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address … government mandate disclosure? and (iii) Do certifiers necessarily report unbiased and accurate information? We further review …
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