This paper estimates the impact of the debt tax shield, cash dividends and imputation tax credits on the prices of Australian stock index futures. Relative to futures payoffs, the cost of financing the set of shares of the underlying index provides a mild tax shield, cash dividends are...

This study examines the impact of voluntary disclosure on the cost of capital and information asymmetry, and thereby on firm value in a comprehensively recursive model. We argue that there is unidirectional dependency among the information asymmetry, cost of capital, and such firm value, hence,...