This work is an attempt to estimate the cost of equity capital characteristic among portfolios of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the years 1995-2017. To this end, the classic CAPM is used to estimate the cost of risk. Model tests are based on 252 monthly returns. In order to...

This paper provides an empirical link between the expected cost of equity and firms' Seasoned Equity Offerings activities, using a novel measure of forward-looking cost of equity. There is a negative impact of expected cost equity on SEO likelihood and amount of proceeds, exists on both market...

Using a sample of 24 US banks from 1997 to 2004, we examine the relationship between value-at-risk (VAR) for trading activities and banks' cost of equity capital. We show that the implied cost of equity capital and the bid-ask spread, both proxying for the cost of equity capital, is positively...