Publication: Disclosure interactions and the cost of equity capital: evidence from the spanish continuous market
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ISSN: 0306-686X (print)
ISSN: 1468-5957 (online)
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2007-12
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Wiley-Blackwell
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The purpose of this paper is to provide some new evidence on the relationship between disclosure and the cost of equity capital. We propose a new specification for the empirical test based on the idea that in the previous models one crucial variable was missing: accounting policy choice. We test our theoretical hypothesis using a sample of Spanish firms quoted on the Spanish continuous market from 1999 to 2002. We adopt the ex-ante approach to measure the cost of equity capital, taking analysts predictions as a proxy for expected earnings. As an explanatory variable we use an index measuring annual report disclosure quality. This measure of disclosure is combined with a proxy for the accounting policy choice of the firm. We measure firms' conservatism using the modified Jones model of Dechow et al. (1995) to estimate discretionary accruals. Our results confirm that the relationship between disclosure and cost of capital is affected by the choice of accounting policy.
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Disclosure quality, Cost of capital, Accounting policy choice
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Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, noviembre/diciembre 2007, Volume 34, Issue 9, p. 1371-1392