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Corporate reputation is an important management objective, bearing the potential to create sustainable competitive …. Applying a validated measure of reputation, we scrutinize its impact for a set of German blue-chip companies between 2005 and … 2011. We show that higher levels of reputation are associated with a lower future cost of equity. While reputation …
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Prior studies report negative or insignificant relations between conditional conservatism and the cost of equity capital, arguing that conservatism reduces information risk. Using accounting-based conditional conservatism proxies, however, we find a significantly positive association between...
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We decompose the structural estimate of the probability of informed trading, PIN, into components that capture informed trading on good and on bad news. We estimate these two components at quarterly intervals, and provide new evidence that they capture informed trading around earnings...
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This paper studies a firmś optimal capital structure in an environment, where the firmś stock price serves as a public signal for its credit worthiness. In equilibrium, equity investors choose how much information to acquire privately, which induces a positive relation between the amount of...
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Together with the development of knowledge-based economy, investment in intangibles has been dramatically increasing. Although intangibles are widely recognized as primary value drivers for more firms, as evidence of many studies related to the value relevance or the market valuation of...
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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...
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