The objective of this paper is to measure the degree of the corporate sustainability disclosure using annual data for listed banks in the UAE financial markets during the period 2003-2013. The results show that the overall level of sustainability disclosure based on sustainability reporting for...

The readability of the 10-K reports has become essential to information users in order to understand the business operations and financial condition of publicly traded firms for decision-making. However, although the plain English rule was mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, top...

By using the two-way fixed effects model and Chinese bank data from 2003 to 2015, this paperstudied the influence of foreign strategic investors (FSIs) on bank credit risk in China and testedthe possible disclosure effect, management effect and financial effect. The research found thatFSIs...

This paper aims to examine the impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance on the financial performance of UAE banks. The sample includes UAE banks over the period 2014-2019. The data show that the ESG performance is increasing over time. In addition, the empirical results...

Building on Desai and Dharmapala’s (2006) complementarity theory on the relation between tax avoidance and insider diversion, we contribute to international research by examining the importance of tax avoidance to equity pricing, and the role that institutional environments play in shaping...

We study the propagation of corporate disclosure policy choices across firms connected by common analysts. We find strong similarities in disclosure policies among firms that share common analysts. We show that these similarities are attributable to both analyst coverage initiation decisions and...

This study examines whether financial reporting with a specific focus on risk disclosures have a predictive (informative) effect on banks' credit ratings (BCRs) and, consequently, ascertains whether governance structures can moderate such an association. Using one of the largest bank-level...

This paper offers in-depth analysis of the determinants and features of voluntary disclosure based on information in the annual reports of 1066 Chinese firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. This extensive sample represents about 80% of all public companies in China. Our...

This study documents the danger of limiting the coverage of mandatory pay disclosure. Exploiting the 2013 rule change in Korea, we find that its restrictive coverage, confined to board members with total annual pay exceeding 500 million Korean won, led a large fraction of executives to evade...

We study the impact on firm valuation of a novel exogenous shock to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data that affects how firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance is measured. Our analysis reveals that firms that get their CSR ratings artificially boosted by a...