By examining the post-retirement outside board seats held by former CEOs of S&P 1500 firms, we find that CEOs' post-retirement outside board memberships are influenced by the tone and level of media coverage given to the CEOs' firms while the CEOs were “on the job.” These results provide...

Tunnelling by large shareholders is a problem representative of ownership concentration. Large shareholders may interfere with a firm's information disclosure to support their tunnelling behaviour, causing a high stock price crash risk. Using listed companies in China from 2001 to 2019 as a...