This research paper studies the quality of own credit (OC) risk disclosures in European banks by analyzing their annual reports. By defining and applying a self-developed disclosure index that incorporates both the (i) relative quantity and (ii) richness of the information provided, it is found...

Michael Erkens analyzes the determinants and consequences of information disclosure. He presents an empirical investigation of corporate risk management disclosures of nearly 400 firms from 20 European countries. The results show that countries’ institutional settings and cultural values are...

The propensity to disclose information about corporate non-financial performance has grown across Europe as a result both of Regulation no. 1606/2002 and higher market sensitivity to enterprises adopting socially responsible policies. This study starts with a through examination of the...

Innovations are one of the major determinants of competitive success. As a result, there is a demand for information on the innovation efforts of firms among investors, other stakeholders, and the relevant public. Using content analysis, this paper examines the innovation capital disclosure...

While responding to calls for research and regulatory concerns regarding the influence of country level characteristics on the completeness and quality of financial statements, we examine the simultaneous influences of corruption and culture on levels of compliance with mandatory disclosure...

The purpose of this study is to determine if the process of filtering out the financial information voluntary disclosed by firms is modified by the introduction of new mandatory information requirement. Voluntary information disclosed by French firms during the 2003-2008 period is compiled. This...

The paper investigates the determinants of goodwill disclosure on a sample of European companies. In particular, the factors associated to particular extents of disclosure are examined.The results provide evidence that, determinants coherent with proprietary cost theory significantly affect the...

In this paper, we examine the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on the quality of operational risk disclosures provided in the annual reports and risk reports in a representative sample of 63 publicly listed European banks for the fiscal years 2008 and 2009. We find that banks having a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the European Union’s (EU) latest regulatory principles for environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures. It explains how some of the EU’s member states are ratifying the EU Commission’s directives on ESG reporting by...

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...