issued the debt. If banks price their assets to realise a target return on economic capital, then a higher credit rating will … result in higher loan rates if the fall in the bank?s cost of capital, associated with the lower insolvency risk, is … the bank?s economic capital holding. We compare theoretically derived decreases in the bank?s cost of funds to actual bank …

institution’s credit worthiness and the return on its market value, and importantly, on the level and quality of capital … steps taken to increase resilience, notably higher capitalization. Our results suggest increased capital buffers may …

The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the impact of intellectual capital disclosure (IC) on cost of … Equity capital. The empirical research is based on companies listed in the French SBF 120 stock market index. The findings … confirm our hypotheses that stipulate the existence of a significant and negative association between intellectual capital …

cost function with capital, labor, and sawlog inputs. Analyses were performed with a panel data set of biennial … capital and labor were most easily substituted inputs. Own-price elasticity at the regional level showed that capital demand … changes in capital and labor price, suggesting that producers had little flexibility to reduce total costs by substituting …

This article provides a farm sector comparison of levels of capital input for fourteen OECD countries for the period … 1973 to 2002. The starting point for construction of a measure of capital input is the measurement of capital stock …. Estimates of depreciable capital are derived by representing capital stock at each point of time as a weighted sum of past …