Employee mobility, noncompete agreements, product-market competition, and company disclosure

被引:28
作者
Aobdia, Daniel [1 ]
机构
[1] Northwestern Univ, Kellogg Sch Management, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
关键词
Employeemobility; Disclosure; Noncompete agreements; Proprietary costs; VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE; DISCRETIONARY DISCLOSURE; CORPORATE DISCLOSURES; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE; LABOR MOBILITY; INDUSTRY; DECISIONS; QUALITY; POLICY;
D O I
10.1007/s11142-017-9425-z
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
This study explores the impact on companies' disclosures of U.S. states' different propensities to enforce noncompete agreements. I find a negative association between a state's enforcement of noncompete agreements and disclosure activities of firms headquartered in that state. Companies that face local rivals drive some results. Analyses that focus on several state-level changes in enforcement level of noncompete agreements confirm this association. Overall, the findings are consistent with a higher enforcement of noncompete agreements increasing proprietary costs of disclosure, because companies in high-enforcement settings are less informed about each other due to reduced information leakage from employee transfers across competitors. The results suggest that the overall environment for information spillovers surrounding a firm impacts its degree of disclosure to the capital markets and that state-specific enforcement of noncompete agreements can be used as a novel measure of the proprietary costs of disclosure.
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页码:296 / 346
页数:51
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