Rules and regulations governing the disclosure of corporate social responsibility policies and practices in the US lag behind that of other countries. While countries such as Sweden, France, the UK and others have mandated the disclosure of corporate social responsibility data, efforts in the US...

The registration date of a seasoned equity offering marks the beginning of the offering process and serves to galvanize further scrutiny and information gathering about the issuer. We posit that the market reaction to this new additional information influences issuers' decisions about their...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ratings offer an opportunity to assess the financial market perception of Social Responsibility disentangling the different impacts of this multi-dimensional concept. We study the influence of Vigeo rating announcements (2004-2009) on short term European...

The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which major industrial crises have a long-run effect on shareholder wealth. We add to the previous evidence that such crises can have a short-term negative impact on stock prices. The long-term effect is important because institutional...