This study examines whether ESG (environmental, social and governance) disclosure influences firm-specific crash risk. Our main research hypothesis postulates that further information disclosure about ESG activities and risks mitigates crash risk by virtue of lower opacity and information...

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...

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...