Relationship between Cost of Equity Capital and Voluntary Corporate Disclosures

  • Petrova E
  • Georgakopoulos G
  • Sotiropoulos I
  • et al.
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Abstract

The relationship between disclosure and cost of equity capital has always been interesting not only for managers, but for investors as well. Economic theory suggests that by increasing the level of corporate reporting firms not only increase their stock market liquidity, but they also decrease the investors’ estimation risk, arising from uncertainty about future returns and payout distributions. Utilizing the Residual Income Valuation Model, the implied cost of capital is estimated for a sample of 121 Swiss listed, non-financial companies adopting a finite horizon version of the residual income valuation model. The results show that firms on the Swiss market can reduce their cost of equity capital by increasing the level of their voluntary corporate disclosures. The results persist even after controlling for various firm specific risks, such as firm size or financial leverage and regardless of company’s reporting strategy (conservative or aggressive).

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Petrova, E., Georgakopoulos, G., Sotiropoulos, I., & Vasileiou, K. Z. (2012). Relationship between Cost of Equity Capital and Voluntary Corporate Disclosures. International Journal of Economics and Finance, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v4n3p83

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