We develop a baseline model which includes as few elements as necessary and then expand this baseline to include
several additional institutional facts. In the baseline model, the economy is composed of managers privately informed about
future cash flows and selling shares of their firm in a competitive market. We assume that managers' behavior is motivated
by the short-term market price, that managers are the only interest group exerting influence to push for certain disclosure
rules, and that firms' shareholders (or other parties) do not exert influence. Each manager is endowed with one unit of
influence – hereafter, one vote – and the disclosure rule that is implemented reflects the preferences of the majority of
managers. We assume that all firms must disclose in accordance to what was agreed to in the vote. We therefore refer to
these disclosures as mandatory – and any minority of managers that did not support the rule, or migh