This study examines the joint effect of carbon disclosure and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission on firms implied cost of equity capital (COC). Based on 4,655 firm-year observations across 34 countries, we find firms' GHG emission intensity to be positively associated with COC. However, we find also...

This study examines the impact of carbon disclosure and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity on the implied cost of equity capital based on a global sample. Our sample consists of 6,214 firm-year observations across 34 countries over the period of 2009-2015. We find firms' carbon disclosure...

Purpose: In contrast to the reporting, stakeholder and regulatory focus, company-internal issues of carbon accounting have so far rarely been investigated in depth. This case study focuses on carbon accounting, as one aspect of accounting for impacts on the environmental capital and details the...

This study examines whether firms can influence their cost of equity (COE) by broadly disseminating their carbon information over Twitter. We study firms' dissemination decisions of carbon information by developing a comprehensive measure of carbon information that a firm makes on Twitter,...

The transition from high- to lower-carbon production systems increasingly creates regulatory and market risks for high-emitting firms. We test to which extent financial investors demand a premium to compensate for such risks and thus might raise firms' cost of equity capital (CoE). Using data...