Ball and Shivakumar (2008) suggest mandatory periodic reporting disciplines disclosure and encourages timely voluntary disclosure. We examine this hypothesis using the shock to reporting quality experienced by former Arthur Andersen clients after they were forced to switch auditors. Consistent with the confirmatory role of mandatory reporting, we find that former Andersen clients increase discl...

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This paper extends the canonical single-period model of voluntary costly disclosure to a dynamic setting with asymmetric information over disclosure costs. I show that dynamic incentives have an ambiguous effect on firms’ disclosure decision and that the cost of disclosure no longer prevents full disclosure by all firms. My main results show that (1) there is a positive inter-temporal connectio...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of voluntary disclosure about corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm’s financial performance. First, a state of the art about corporate social responsibility and social reporting is presented. After that, the problems of measurement of CSR are indicated and the hypotheses are proposed. In the empirical analysis, regression models are...

This study examines the e ect of increased product information to consumers on rm behavior. In 1998, Los Angeles County introduced hygiene quality grade cards to be displayed in restaurant windows. This regulatory change provides exogenous variation in whether rms are subject to voluntary disclosure (of hygiene quality) without a standard-format, voluntary disclosure with a standard-format or m...