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I consider the role of firm transparency in shaping its capital structure. In a costly-state-verification model, the … optimally choose zero leverage and finance themselves with equity. If firms can increase their transparency at a cost – say by …
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: transparency of actual monetary policy and the question of who bears final responsibility for monetary policy. The paper shows that … accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …
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externality: if speculators refrain from trading, hedgers do the same, depressing the asset price. Market transparency reinforces … disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. Issuers may either under- or over-provide information compared to the …
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Given ambiguity concerning the effects of disclosure on firm value and markets, we examine the question of whether investors value carbon risk disclosure. Through a survey and empirical tests, we conclude that many institutional investors consider climate risk reporting to be as important as...
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and regulatory framework for SOE disclosure and transparency. Some have made significant progress in terms of improving …
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We develop a new measure of relative debt transparency by comparing the amount of state debt reported in the annual …
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the probability of inefficient default, the regulator optimally designs a disclosure regime that imposes transparency when …
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analyze the reporting behavior and the degree of transparency across the reports. We observe a large heterogeneity with …
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Tax return information is often complex and difficult to interpret. Whether its public availability benefits unsophisticated users remains an empirical question. This study examines whether public disclosure of tax return information affects information asymmetry among more- and less-...
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