We investigate the impact of endogenous information acquisition on Easley and O'Hara's (2004) result that moving information from being publicly to privately available results in an increase in a firm's cost of capital. As in Christensen, de la Rosa and Feltham (2010), when the cost of...

We investigate the impact of endogenous information acquisition on Easley and O'Hara's (2004) result that moving information from being publicly to privately available results in an increase in a firm's cost of capital. As in Christensen et al. (2010), when the cost of information acquisition is...

We explore the association between earnings and price for 400 IFRS adopting firms from eight countries (Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Sweden and the UK) in their annual reports for the years 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2013 (1,577 firm-years). We find no difference in the...