Besides hostile intervention, activist shareholders aiming to make changes in target firmsalso use more friendly approaches such as communicating with the firm management. Managerscan strategically influence activist shareholders’ perception about the firm and therefore theirchoice of...

An extensive literature documents that providing the right incentives can reduce deception. We hypothesize that truthful communication can be promoted by the threat of ex-post disclosure, even in the absence of financial consequences. Our experiment identifies the effect of ex-post disclosure...

Corporate climate disclosures are considered an essential prerequisite to managing climate-related financial risks. At the same time, current disclosures are imprecise, inaccurate, and greenwashing-prone. We introduce a deep learning approach to enable comprehensive climate disclosure analyses...