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Author: Monica Espinosa Blasco Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 27
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In our study we focus on the determinants of reputation and, in particular, on the relation between the quality of annual report disclosures of companies and their reputation. We try to bring together two strands of literature: the literature on corporate reputation and the literature on corporate disclosures. Using data on corporate reputation and on quality of annual report disclosures for a sample of Spanish companies, we test the hypothesis that annual report disclosure quality is a crucial determinant of corporate reputation. After controlling for other possible determinants, especially size, we find significant evidence in favour of our hypothesis. Firms with a better annual report disclosure score are more likely to be rated among the top 50 national companies in terms of corporate reputation. Moreover the disclosure score positively affects the reputation score.
Author: Monica Espinosa Blasco Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 27
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In our study we focus on the determinants of reputation and, in particular, on the relation between the quality of annual report disclosures of companies and their reputation. We try to bring together two strands of literature: the literature on corporate reputation and the literature on corporate disclosures. Using data on corporate reputation and on quality of annual report disclosures for a sample of Spanish companies, we test the hypothesis that annual report disclosure quality is a crucial determinant of corporate reputation. After controlling for other possible determinants, especially size, we find significant evidence in favour of our hypothesis. Firms with a better annual report disclosure score are more likely to be rated among the top 50 national companies in terms of corporate reputation. Moreover the disclosure score positively affects the reputation score.
Author: Katharina Hombach Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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We study the reputational costs of targeted disclosure regulation - disclosure requirements aimed at policy objectives outside of securities regulators' traditional missions. This emerging type of disclosure regulation empowers civil society to deter firms' illicit actions. Our setting is the SEC's extraction payments disclosure rule, which requires oil and gas firms to publish details about their payments to host governments. Consistent with reputational costs imposed on affected firms, our event-study results document that the rule's negative effect on firm value is stronger where greater reputational risk makes firms more vulnerable to public pressure. Our qualitative field evidence suggests that reputational costs arise because the required disclosures facilitate pressure groups' campaigning. These findings are robust to several alternative explanations and research design choices.
Author: Panel on Data Access for Research Purposes Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 9780309100120 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 142
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Policy makers need information about the nation—ranging from trends in the overall economy down to the use by individuals of Medicare—in order to evaluate existing programs and to develop new ones. This information often comes from research based on data about individual people, households, and businesses and other organizations, collected by statistical agencies. The benefit of increasing data accessibility to researchers and analysts is better informed public policy. To realize this benefit, a variety of modes for data access— including restricted access to confidential data and unrestricted access to appropriately altered public-use data—must be used. The risk of expanded access to potentially sensitive data is the increased probability of breaching the confidentiality of the data and, in turn, eroding public confidence in the data collection enterprise. Indeed, the statistical system of the United States ultimately depends on the willingness of the public to provide the information on which research data are based. Expanding Access to Research Data issues guidance on how to more fully exploit these tradeoffs. The panel’s recommendations focus on needs highlighted by legal, social, and technological changes that have occurred during the last decade.
Author: Omri Ben-Shahar Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691161704 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 239
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How mandated disclosure took over the regulatory landscape—and why it failed Perhaps no kind of regulation is more common or less useful than mandated disclosure—requiring one party to a transaction to give the other information. It is the iTunes terms you assent to, the doctor's consent form you sign, the pile of papers you get with your mortgage. Reading the terms, the form, and the papers is supposed to equip you to choose your purchase, your treatment, and your loan well. More Than You Wanted to Know surveys the evidence and finds that mandated disclosure rarely works. But how could it? Who reads these disclosures? Who understands them? Who uses them to make better choices? Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl Schneider put the regulatory problem in human terms. Most people find disclosures complex, obscure, and dull. Most people make choices by stripping information away, not layering it on. Most people find they can safely ignore most disclosures and that they lack the literacy to analyze them anyway. And so many disclosures are mandated that nobody could heed them all. Nor can all this be changed by simpler forms in plainer English, since complex things cannot be made simple by better writing. Furthermore, disclosure is a lawmakers' panacea, so they keep issuing new mandates and expanding old ones, often instead of taking on the hard work of writing regulations with bite. Timely and provocative, More Than You Wanted to Know takes on the form of regulation we encounter daily and asks why we must encounter it at all.
Author: Wenhao Zhang Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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We study a model of strategic disclosure where a decision maker consults an expert of uncertain types about the state and then chooses between two actions according to his expected state and realized private preference. The expert may be an honest type who discloses whatever information observed, or a strategic type who prefers the decision maker take the higher action and discloses information strategically towards this purpose, while also valuing a reputation for being honest. The unique equilibrium involves an interim interval where the strategic expert mixes between disclosure and concealment, along with regions of complete concealment and disclosure. A higher weight attached to reputational concern by the strategic expert encourages more disclosure and results in higher expert reputation when no information is revealed. Reduction in ability to find news and increase in the measure of honest expert could worsen the strategic expert's disclosure incentive. The latter suggests that the decision maker does not necessarily benefit from a greater amount of honest expert.
Author: Mani Sethuraman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This paper explores the effect of credit rating agency's (CRA) reputation on the voluntary disclosures of corporate bond issuers. Academics, practitioners, and regulators disagree on the informational role played by major CRAs and the usefulness of credit ratings in influencing investors' perception of the credit risk of bond issuers. Using management earnings forecasts as a measure of voluntary disclosure, I find that investors demand more (less) disclosure from corporate bond issuers when the ratings become less (more) credible. In addition, using content analytics, I find that bond issuers disclose more qualitative (i.e. textual) information during periods of low CRA reputation to aid investors better assess credit risk. That the corporate managers alter their voluntary disclosure in response to CRA reputation shocks is consistent with credit ratings providing incremental information to investors and reducing adverse selection in lending markets. Further, consistent with theoretical predictions, my findings suggest that managers rely on voluntary disclosure as a credible mechanism to reduce information asymmetry in bond markets.
Author: Habiba Al-Shaer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 34
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We examine the impact of the volume and quality of environmental disclosures in corporate annual reports on the creation and sustenance of firms' reputation for environmental responsibility, and the extent to which these effects are enhanced by the quality of audit committees. Using a sample of UK FTSE350 companies from 2007-2011, we find evidence that firms enhance reputations by the quality of their environmental disclosures and by virtue of the quality of audit committees. Higher disclosure volume alone does not lead to increased reputation. Audit committees that comply with Smith (2003) recommendations, complement higher quality, difficult to replicate disclosures, in promoting reputation.
Author: Poh-Sun Seow Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 34
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Regulators have increased the disclosure requirements of top executives as part of corporate governance reform. This study examines how trust arising from a firm's corporate reputation will interact with top executive compensation disclosure to influence investor judgments. This study used a 2 X 2 between subjects experimental design, with corporate reputation (good versus bad) and pay ratio (high versus low) as independent variables to test the hypotheses. The key findings show that if the firm with a good corporate reputation discloses a high pay ratio, participants punished the good reputation firm more than the bad reputation firm, demonstrating a negative violation of expectations. On the other hand, if the firm with a bad corporate reputation discloses a low pay ratio, participants rewarded the bad reputation firm more than the good reputation firm, demonstrating a positive violation of expectations. The results of this study may be limited by its particular circumstances of corporate reputation and compensation disclosure, making generalizations of the findings to other settings difficult.
Author: Monica Espinosa Blasco
Author: Monica Espinosa Blasco
Author: Mónica Espinosa
Author: Katharina Hombach
Author: Panel on Data Access for Research Purposes
Author: Omri Ben-Shahar
Author: Wenhao Zhang
Author: Mani Sethuraman
Author: Cary A. Deck
Author: Habiba Al-Shaer
Author: Poh-Sun Seow