This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) reduces information asymmetry (IA). Using a firm-level CSR dataset of Australian publicly listed firms from 2004 to 2014, we estimate IA models using a fixed-effects panel estimator. We find that CSR performance is negatively...

In this article, we provide new empirical evidence of the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and information asymmetry (IA) within the Australian context. Utilising a novel firm-level dataset of Australian publicly listed firms from EIKON and Australian Securities...