The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown brought about an exogenous and unparalleled stock market crash. The crisis thus provides a unique opportunity to test theories of environmental and social (ES) policies. This paper shows that stocks with higher ES ratings have significantly...

The high sensitivity of management compensation to accounting performance could be an important driver of financial restatement, due to strong management incentives to manipulate earnings. This paper examines whether restating firms rearrange management's annual compensation following...