Using the staggered introduction of 87 country-level regulations that mandate firms to report specific environmental or social (E&S) information, I document that disclosure of financially immaterial E&S information has material effects on firms' investment and financing decisions. Firms...

We study whether the threat of exit by institutional investors can induce firms to voluntarily disclose their environmental policies. To address concerns about reverse causality and omitted variables, we implement a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to conduct our empirical tests. The...

We investigate asset manager characteristics that influence ESG voting patterns using a decade of voting data with more than 20 million observations. Asset managers predominantly vote against social and environmental proposals. Especially, large and passive asset managers vote the least in favor...

Objective - This research analyzes the effect of state ownership, family ownership, and the effectiveness of the board's moderating role on sustainability report quality of Indonesian companies.Methodology/Technique - Sustainability report quality is a factor analysis of percentage of disclosure...

Executive ownership addresses agency problems by aligning the financial goals of management and shareholders. We explore whether executive ownership fosters a non-financial sustainability footprint as well. We find that executive ownership is negatively associated with US firms’ environmental...

This study examines how minimum wage hikes affect firms’ industrial pollution. Using the establishment-level pollutant emission data on Chinese industrial firms and exploring the minimum wage policy discontinuities at county borders, we find that minimum wage hikes induce firms to pollute more...

Analysts' earnings pressure not only drives corporate managers to improve short-term financial performance but also encourages them to engage in myopic decisions detrimental to environmental performance. However, evidence on whether analysts' earnings pressure affects environmental information...

Using a sample of voting turnouts of annual general meetings of European companies, we document that shareholder voting turnouts are significantly different according to the ownership structure of the company. Different types of shareholder classes show different voting engagements according to...

Empirical evidence suggests that the voting premium in the Korean securities market is strongly related to the structure of corporate ownership. We find that the premium attached to voting stock is positively and significantly associated with the control value of a block of shares held by...

We explore Time-Phased Voting (“TPV”), an arrangement in which long-term shareholders receive more votes per share than short-term shareholders. TPV has gained prominence in recent years as a proposed remedy for perceived corporate myopia. We begin with theory, situating TPV relative to...