We exploit the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a source of variation in the demand for environmental information to study the economic consequences of environmental disclosure. Using a large, hand-collected sample of Japanese firms, we find that firms that issue stand-alone environmental reports...

In this paper, we investigate potential differences in topic-specific CSR disclosure between companies located in liberal market economies (LMEs) and companies located in coordinated market economies (CMEs). Furthermore, we examine the potential convergence of the reporting practices that...