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Title: Market-wide Effects of Off-Balance Sheet Disclosures:

Author(s): Marc Badia, Miguel Duro, Bjorn N. Jorgensen and Gaizka Ormazabal

Publication Date: July 2017

Keyword(s): Disclosure of Oil and Gas Reserves, Disclosure Rules, Informational Spillovers and Real Effects of Disclosure Regulation

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: This paper studies the spillover effects of firms' off-balance sheet disclosures. We focus our analysis on the mandatory disclosure of oil and gas (O&G) reserves, a setting in which off-balance sheet information is particularly important to understand industry competition. Using a comprehensive sample of Canadian and US O&G producers we document two novel results. First, in contrast to prior research on the informational effect of peers' earnings announcements, we find evidence that firms' exhibit lower stock returns when their peers announce more positive news about O&G reserves. Second, consistent with peers' disclosures affecting managerial decision making, we document that larger increases in peers' reserves are accompanied by an increase in firms' investment. We corroborate our results by exploiting three sources of institutional variation. First, the North-American pipeline infrastructure constrains the supply of natural gas, and thus competition in the gas market, but not the supply of oil. Second, the introduction of the fracking technology substantially altered the competition dynamics in the natural gas market. Third, mandatory O&G disclosure rules were modified in Canada and the US in a similar fashion, albeit at different points in time. Overall, our evidence suggests that off-balance sheet disclosures have substantial market-wide effects in the form of both financial and real externalities.

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Badia, M, Duro, M, Jorgensen, B and Ormazabal, G. 2017. 'Market-wide Effects of Off-Balance Sheet Disclosures:'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12152