Proprietary costs and the choice of hard and soft greenhouse gas emissions’ disclosure

Janice Hollindale; Pamela Kent; Xin Qu

doi:10.1111/acfi.12906

Proprietary costs and the choice of hard and soft greenhouse gas emissions’ disclosure

Janice Hollindale, Pamela Kent^*, Xin Qu

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Bond Business School

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We test whether proprietary costs (relating to competition) are associated with disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of companies in annual and stand-alone sustainability reports. We use the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 disclosure requirement to create a natural experiment to control for endogeneity issues. Disclosure is significantly higher when there are lower proprietary costs from existing rivals and higher proprietary costs from potential new entrants for hard, and soft disclosures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3837-3873
Number of pages	37
Journal	Accounting and Finance
Volume	62
Issue number	3
Early online date	5 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12906
Publication status	Published - Sept 2022

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