Biographical note: DuffieDarrell: Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. His books include "How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It" and "Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory" (both Princeton).

This study shows that less readable 10-K reports are associated with higher stock price crash risk. The results are consistent with the argument that managers can successfully hide adverse information by writing complex financial reports, which leads to stock price crashes when the hidden bad...

This study examines the relation between asset-backed securitizations and future stock price crash risk in nonfinancial firms. We argue that the off-balance sheet treatment of securitizations facilitates managers’ bad news hiding, leading to higher crash risk. Using a large sample of U.S....