This paper investigates the relationship between annual report disclosure, market liquidity, and capital cost for firms registered on the Deutsche Börse. Disclosure is comprehensively measured using the innovative Artificial Intelligence Measurement of Disclosure (AIMD). Results show that...

This paper describes a simple way to integrate the debt tax shield into an accounting-based valuation model. The market value of equity is determined by forecasting residual operating income, which is calculated by charging operating income for the operating assets at a required return that...

The main objective of the study has been to provide new insights into ongoing recent studiesexamining the impact of stock market liberalization at both macro and micro (firm) levels. Thestudy focused on a single country, South Africa, whose exchange, the Johannesburg StockExchange (JSE),...

Black Economic Empowerment is one of the South African government'sinitiatives to bring parity to past economic imbalances. One of the aspects ofthis empowerment has been through transferring of equity ownership toempowerment groups in order to increase black ownership and control. A keyquestion...

In a dividend imputation tax system, equity investors have three potential sources of return: dividends, capital gains and franking (tax) credits. However, the standard procedures for estimating the market risk premium (MRP) for use in the capital asset pricing model, ignore the value of...

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between price regulation and investment. More specifically, this thesis aims to answer the following two questions: (i) Does price regulation distort the firm’s decisions of when and whether to invest? and (ii) Does price...

The purpose of this research is to know the financial performance of PT.Unilever Indonesia, Tbk which is measured by Economic Value Added (EVA).Variable which is needed to compute The EVA are Net Profit After Tax (NOPAT),Cost of Capital (CoC), and Economic Value Added (EVA). EVA concept...

I examine the relation between a corporate commitment to increased disclosure and measures of liquidity, information asymmetry, and cost of equity capital. Relative to prior research on voluntary disclosure, I use a composite, ex ante measure of commitment based in social psychology and measure...

Recent theoretical work argues that information risk is a non-diversifiable risk factor that is priced in the capital market. Using accruals quality to proxy for information risk, Francis et al. (2005) provide empirical support for this argument using a sample of US firms. This paper re-examines...