This study explores the impact on companies' disclosures of U.S. states' different propensities to enforce noncompete agreements. I find a negative association between a state's enforcement of noncompete agreements and disclosure activities of firms headquartered in that state. Companies that...

We examine the disclosure policies of non-unionized firms operating in unionized industries. We test the hypothesis that non-unionized firms have an incentive to disclose more information when their unionized rivals are engaged in labor renegotiations; that is, to weaken them. We find that...

Answering the call by Blankespoor et al. (2020) to study the effect of disclosure processing frictions on other stakeholders and decision contexts, this study examines how firms facing strong organized labor strategically respond to the implementation of the EDGAR system, which substantially...