We compare the value and credit relevance of financial statements under fair-value and smoothing (SFAS-87) models of pension accounting. The fair-value model does not improve the value relevance of the balance sheet and may impair that of income and the combined financial statements, unless...

We compare the value and credit relevance of financial statements under fair-value and smoothing (SFAS-87) models of pension accounting. The fair-value model does not improve the value relevance of the balance sheet and may impair that of income and the combined financial statements, unless...

We exploit the change in U.S. segment reporting rules (from SFAS 14 to SFAS 131) to examine two motives for managers to conceal segment profits: proprietary costs and agency costs. Managers face proprietary costs of segment disclosure if the revelation of a segment that earns high abnormal...

Using a comprehensive sample of work-from-home (WFH) job postings, we examine (i) trends in employer preferences for remote workers both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and (ii) the effect of labor market competition on firm decisions to allow their employees to work remotely. We...

Recent studies provide evidence that the new segment reporting rule, SFAS 131, induced companies to provide more disaggregated segment information. We use adoption of the new standard to identify firms that aggregated segment information under the old standard, SFAS 14, and examine two motives...

We examine the impact of firms’ voluntary climate disclosure on the stock market’s reaction to climate change policy. Using the Paris Agreement as an exogenous shock to climate policy and novel measures of climate-related disclosure developed in recent literature, we find that...