Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital
2007/03/16 by RICHARD LAMBERT, Richard A. Lambert, CHRISTIAN LEUZ +3 · 25 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance #Financial Markets and Investment Strategies #Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1475-679x.2007.00238.x
Abstract
ABSTRACT In this paper we examine whether and how accounting information about a firm manifests in its cost of capital, despite the forces of diversification. We build a model that is consistent with the Capital Asset Pricing Model and explicitly allows for multiple securities whose cash flows are correlated. We demonstrate that the quality of accounting information can influence the cost of capital, both directly and indirectly. The direct effect occurs because higher quality disclosures affect the firm's assessed covariances with other firms' cash flows, which is nondiversifiable. The indirect effect occurs because higher quality disclosures affect a firm's real decisions, which likely changes the firm's ratio of the expected future cash flows to the covariance of these cash flows with the sum of all the cash flows in the market. We show that this effect can go in either direction, but also derive conditions under which an increase in information quality leads to an unambiguous decline in the cost of capital.
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