Zehn Jahre nachdem das IASB das sonstige Gesamtergebnis eingeführt hat, führt dieses immer noch ein Schattendasein. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob dieser Zustand berechtigt ist und falls erwünscht, wie dieser geändert werden könnte. In den 1970er Jahren führte die anhaltend hohe Inflation zu...

Research on the effects of voluntary disclosure quality on the cost of equity capital is often plagued by endogeneity concerns. In this paper, I use a dynamic panel system GMM estimator, which provides internal instruments from the firm's history that directly address endogeneity arising from...

Research on the effects of voluntary disclosure quality on the cost of equity capital is often plagued by endogeneity concerns. I use a dynamic panel system GMM estimator to minimize these concerns by incorporating the dynamic nature of voluntary disclosure choices. The dynamic panel system GMM...

We hypothesise and test for a U-shaped relation between the cost of equity capital and the level of disclosure in annual report narratives. Using a computer-generated word-count-based index of the level of disclosure in U.K. annual report narratives, we document a negative relation with the cost...