Firms can disclose social information via different channels such as SEC filings, stand-alone sustainability reports, or financial reports. Based on the notion that investors interpret such disclosures from a risk perspective, we analyse how disclosure via each of the three channels relates to...

Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...

Using newly-available materiality classifications of sustainability topics, we develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific sustainability ratings. This allows us to present new evidence on the value implications...