We investigate the association between voluntary disclosure and the risk-related discount investors apply to price. First, we study the association between (endogenous) disclosure choice and the discount in price induced by changes in the underlying model parameters: this informs empirical...

We examine the association between a firm’s cost of capital and its voluntary and mandatory disclosures. We include two types of mandatory disclosures: those that are a function of periodic reports that are realizations of ex-ante reporting systems and those that arise due to specific...