This paper examines whether a firm's degree of conservatism in financial reporting is associated with its voluntary non-financial corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures and the stock price reaction to such disclosures. Theoretical and empirical studies find that the amount of...

The current study examines the voluntary disclosures (provided in the U.S.) by U.S.-listed Asian companies. Our findings indicate that significantly fewer [greater] voluntary disclosures are provided by U.S.-listed Asian companies from countries which have a strict [less strict] mandatory...

We introduce a machine learning approach to quantify the thematic content of climate reporting in annual reports and use this to analyze firms’ climate reporting practices in the context of the widespread European Non-Financial Reporting Directive. We finetune ClimateBert to identify climate...