We investigate the impact of peer pressure on the characteristics of forward-looking disclosures. We identify plausibly exogenous variation in the amount of peer firm forecast news available when a focal firm issues its own forecast by employing a sample of firms that issue forecasts in...

We investigate the effect of diversity on market reactions to financial disclosure. We show elevated trading volume and stock return volatility around earnings announcements for firms headquartered in culturally and linguistically diverse locales. These results continue to hold when earnings...

The proposed new SEC (2022) rules suggest that the information risk may be unusually high for companies going public by merging with SPACs (“SPAC-IPOs”). We study the merits of this “information risk” hypothesis and then examine whether the high information risk also explains...

We propose that the availability of dark pools incentivizes informed traders to acquire information ex-ante and thus induces stronger monitoring effects on corporate decisions. Utilizing the trade-at rule provision in the SEC’s Tick Size Pilot Program, we find that restrictions on dark pool...

To help companies comply with the certification requirements under Section 302 of SOX, the SEC recommends issuers form a disclosure committee, ‘for considering the materiality of information and determining disclosure obligations on a timely basis’ (SEC 2002a). While the importance of...

We study how venture capital firms (VCs), one major capital provider for early-stage entrepreneurial companies, respond to narcissistic entrepreneurs. VCs prefer to invest in companies with narcissistic entrepreneurs. Conditional on making an investment, VCs are more likely to impose contingent...

We exploit cross-country variation in banks’ confidential reporting requirements under COREP, the common European supervisory risk reporting framework, as an indicator for banking supervisors’ preference for private information. Our results suggest that a stronger preference for confidential...

The focus of this paper is on the first of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment - ‘We will incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision making’ - the challenges and potentials of which are explored through a case study of an early attempt at ESG...

This paper reviews the literature on the effect of informal institutions on accounting practices and outcomes. We adopt a structured literature review methodology and address three key questions: How is research on the impact of informal institutions on accounting outcomes developing? What is...

Purpose: This study examines the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) 200 listed firms that reported underlying profits from 2009 to 2012 to determine whether the underlying profits reflect accounting-based and market-based financial reporting quality. Design: The panel-data modelling results...