The study aims to investigate the relationship between the financial incentives of board members and disclosure of corporate risk, emphasizing the levels of corporate performance and risk in Iran. The research sample includes 98 listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2011-2015 (490 years-firms); the firms have selected by using a systematic removal method. Regarding the aim, the present...

We analyze a model where investors (e.g., hedge funds) need to borrow from lenders with heterogeneous risk-exposures and risk-management motives. Investors may obtain advantageous terms of borrowing by disclosing their investment strategy, thereby revealing its correlation to the lender’s existing risk exposure. Investors risk being ‘‘front-run’’ by their lender if they disclose, however. We sh...

This study investigates risk factor disclosures under the voluntary, incentive-based disclosure regime provided by the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and the SEC’s subsequent disclosure mandate. Firms subject to greater litigation risk disclose more risk factors, update the language more from year-to-year, and use more readable language than firms with low...

financial literacy of investors reduces uncertainty on future decisions and increases predictability of investment policies in financial markets. thus, the lack of clear information on financial markets is a determining factor in the arrival of domestic and foreign capitals and their quick exit in case of crisis. the lack of transparency and basic knowledge on decisions and failure to provide r...

Corporate governance scandals and the global financial crisis have led to calls for better risk disclosure. However, such disclosure may be stifled by the proprietary cost hypothesis that firms limit voluntary disclosure to avoid risk of adverse actions. Against this background, several studies have examined the determinants of risk disclosure in corporate annual reports. The purpose of this pa...

In this paper, we consider the pricing effects of noisy risk disclosure. We show that uncertainty over the riskiness of a firm’s cash flows is priced and that risk disclosure decreases the cost of capital in both single and multi-asset settings. We find that mean and risk disclosure are substitutes, and that firms acquire and disclose more risk information when they discover that risks are high...