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Focusing on a sample of U.S. companies to control for country-level effects and to allow for comparison with the prior environmental-themed studies, we document a significantly negative market reaction to the first TI report issuance. Although also negative, the market reaction to the 2014 report was not statistically significant. However, we also document that, as expected, market adjustments differ significantly across subgroups based on anti-corruption disclosure in both time periods. These results hold controlling for other factors potentially influencing investor perceptions of exposure to the report issuances. In general, our results are consistent with the prior studies and indicate that the market is savvy to political cost exposures arising from non-environmental events. The findings also suggest that TI's efforts may be increasing stakeholder pressure for corporate anti-corruption performance, but we caution that further investigation of the relation between disclosure and underlying performance in the corruption domain is warranted.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2308\/apin-51680","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,2]],"date-time":"2017-02-02T22:03:33Z","timestamp":1486073013000},"page":"84-99","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Market Reactions to Transparency International Reports on Corporate Anti-Corruption"],"prefix":"10.2308","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Renata","family":"Blanc","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Porto"}]},{"given":"Dennis M.","family":"Patten","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Illinois State University"}]},{"given":"Manuel Castelo","family":"Branco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Porto"}]}],"member":"1112","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,1]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2024082916533493300_i1530-9320-16-1-84-Aerts1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.aos.2008.02.005","article-title":"Media legitimacy and corporate environmental communication","volume":"34","author":"Aerts","year":"2009","journal-title":"Accounting, Organizations and Society"},{"issue":"4","key":"2024082916533493300_i1530-9320-16-1-84-Andersson1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"746","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-9248.2008.00758.x","article-title":"The politics of perception: Use and abuse of Transparency International's approach to measuring corruption","volume":"57","author":"Andersson","year":"2009","journal-title":"Political Studies"},{"issue":"3","key":"2024082916533493300_i1530-9320-16-1-84-Ashforth1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"670","DOI":"10.5465\/amr.2008.32465714","article-title":"Re-viewing organizational corruption","volume":"33","author":"Ashforth","year":"2008","journal-title":"Academy of Management Review"},{"key":"2024082916533493300_i1530-9320-16-1-84-Birkey1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Birkey, R. 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