We study how climate risk shapes financial-reporting conservatism with data collected from 47 countries, and document that firms facing more extreme weather conditions use less unconditional conservatism but more conditional conservatism in financial reporting. Furthermore, such impacts of...

This study explores the influence of climate risk on properties of firms’ financial reporting practices with observations collected from 64 countries between 2005 and 2016. We use a country-level climate risk indicator developed by Germanwatch to measure the degree of damage from extreme...