This paper examines the relationship between two important financial variables (price informativeness, and cost of capital) and information asymmetry, controlling for the total amount of information in the market. In the model, each investor has a private signal. We measure information asymmetry...

Estimates of the expected return on equities are of central importance for capital budgeting purposes, actuarial calculations (expected wealth) and, in countries with regulated utilities, for setting the allowed rate of return. The starting point for any of these purposes is the simple annual...

Investor sentiment is believed to play an increasingly significant role in business and economic activities. By analyzing data collected from a sample of listed nonfinancial firms in Pakistan for the period 2009-2018, we quantify investor behavior and how it affects market returns, cash flows,...