This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data on 37 countries from 1996-2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market (1) during the financial crisis; (2) in countries that have more credit provided...

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...

This study examines whether and how risk disclosures in Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) affected the stock price crash risk of China's publicly listed firms over the period of 2017-2021. The empirical results show that risk disclosures within the MD&A section are signif‑ icantly and...