We find that when more independent directors rank a directorship high, the firm-specific information content in a firm's stock price increases. Further, independent directors with high reputation incentives serve firms that voluntarily disclose more information and display lower crash risk. We...

We explore if sleep deprivation affects how investors react to relevant news. Using the transition to Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the spring as a disruption to sleeping patterns, we show that investors underreact to a firm’s earnings surprise in the days after the transition to DST. Further,...

We exploit the quasi-natural experiment created by the roll-out of the EDGAR system to study the causal impact of the additional flow of stock-specific information on firms. We find that this information flow to investors resulted in statistically significant and economically essential changes...