This paper examines the role of information and regulatory interventions in mitigating the executive gender pay gap. We find female executives are paid about 34 per cent less compared to equivalent males from the same cohort, which falls by half over tenure within the company, but remains...

This paper studies the impact of the forward looking intangibles-specific non-financial and textual disclosures on the annual reports (including MD&A, etc.) of 25 biggest Pharmaceutical firms listed in the United States. Using a mixed research method the information from the annual reports are...

The healthcare and pharmaceutical industry in the United States has its primary resources tied up in the form of intangibles. Therefore, the main risk factors of such firms are directly associated with the management of such idiosyncratic resources. Reporting on intangibles has always been...

Manuscript Type: EmpiricalResearch Issue: This study applies the statistical properties of Benford's Law to CEO pay. Benford's ‘Law' states that in an unbiased dataset, the first digit values are usually unequally allocated when considering the logical expectations of equal distribution. In...