We use required 8-K filings around major borrowings to shed light on firms' choices of whether to comply with SEC disclosure rules. We first develop a simple model in which the firm weighs the benefit of obscuring the disclosure of an adverse event, against the cost of failing to comply with a...

Theories of delegated monitoring predict that when public disclosure is costly, monitoring by a large investor leads management to supply more private information to that investor, and less public disclosure to other similarly aligned investors who free-ride off the monitor. We test this...

Investor uncertainty about firm value drives investors' information collection and trading activities, as well as managers' disclosure choices. This study examines an important source of uncertainty that likely cannot be influenced by most managers and investors: uncertainty about government...