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Discretionary compliance with mandatory environmental disclosures: Evidence from SEC filings
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“Peters and Romi (2013) use monetary sanctions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as an item that firms must disclose in SEC filings under Item 103 of Regulation S-K, and show a 72% noncompliance rate.”
From Mandatory CSR and sustainability reporting: economic analysis and literature review (2021) · cites this paper as Peters and Romi (2013)
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“As Peters and Romi (2013) show, even the compliance with SEC disclosure rules for environmental sanctions is low, despite the use of bright-line materiality thresholds.”
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“…paragraph 3.26 notes a firm should include negative matters voluntarily in this report, accounting research has shown that firms will disregard reporting requirements if they feel the information may harm stock prices, thus they may be less inclined to follow such a mandate (Peters and Romi 2013a).”
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“…variables include, but are not limited to: Huang and Kung (2010), Clarkson and Li (2004), Lang et al. (2003), Clarkson et al. (2008), Cho and Patten (2007), Richardson et al. (2004), Lang et al. (1993), Branco and Rodrigues (2008), Stanny and Ely (2008), Peters and Romi (2013), among others.”
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- Authors
- Peters, G. F., & Romi, A. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Romi, Andrea M.
- Venue
- Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-07
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 213-236
- ISSN
- 0278-4254 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2112211757
- Cited by
- 158
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 17.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Accounting › Accounting and Financial Management
- Keywords
- disclosure compliance, environmental sanctions, SEC filings, voluntary disclosure, environmental accounting, materiality thresholds, environmental risk disclosure, court proceedings, environmental liability, corporate disclosure regulation
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