Fu, Renhui; Kraft, Arthur; Zhang, Huai - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 54 (2012) 2, pp. 132-149
Using hand-collected data on firms’ interim reporting frequency from 1951 to 1973, we examine the impact of financial reporting frequency on information asymmetry and the cost of equity. Our results show that higher reporting frequency reduces information asymmetry and the cost of equity, and...