Using a sample of US biotech firms, this paper examines the joint impact of product-related voluntary disclosure and corporate governance on a firms' information environment, specifically on analysts forecast accuracy, dispersion, precision of public and private information. Moreover, we...

In this study, we examine whether CEOs' stock-based compensation has any relationship with the disclosure of highly proprietary information. While prior studies suggest that stock-based compensation provides managers with an incentive to enhance their voluntary disclosures in general, we argue...

Prior literature shows that financial disclosures and corporate governance both impact firm performance. This paper documents an important topic that has been overlooked in the prior literature, their joint effect, because the two mechanisms could be independent, substitutive, or complementary...

This study examines the effect of regulatory approval on a firm’s voluntary product-level disclosures. We focus on the US biotechnology industry, a setting which allows direct observation of whether firms disclose more information as products proceed through well-defined—though successively...

We apply latent Dirichlet allocation to examine the textual characteristics of firms’ transition disclosures in the context of the adoption of Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 842 on leases. We find that firms’ lease transition disclosures become less readable and more dissimilar the...