This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data on 37 countries from 1996–2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market during the financial crisis; in countries that have more credit provided by...

This study examines the impact of other comprehensive income (OCI) on stock price crash risk. We find that the disclosure of OCI can reduce stock price crash risk. This association is robust to a series of robustness checks, including the use of different measures of crash risk, firm fixed...

The SEC's Disclosure Effectiveness Initiative (December 2013) highlights a difference between accounting regulators and academics in their perceptions of Item 1A risk factor disclosure effectiveness. Because most academic evidence relies on pre-financial crisis data, we compare changes in risk...