Using a large panel of US public firms, we examine the relation between annual report
readability and cost of equity capital. We hypothesize that complex textual reporting deters …

Purpose The study examines the mediating role of accounting information quality (AQ), a
proxy for firms' information risk, in firms' business strategy and the cost of equity (COE) nexus …

The main goal of this study is to examine the return explanation strengths of the Carhart four-
factor, the Fama–French three-factor, and the single-factor models in the context of the …

I find a strong positive association between firms' implied cost of equity capital and firm‐level
political risk. This effect is above and beyond the firm‐level cost of equity implications of …

The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria that survive beyond 5 years
after their establishment is less than 50%. The specific management problem addressed in …

Errors in valuing stock securities result in losses for investors, so a careful assessment must
be made so that investments are made right and profitable. The purpose of this study is to …

One of the basic types of portfolio valuation as well as valuation of individual company
shares is the CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing) model, which uses a well-known measure of …

The aim of this study is to investigate return differences, accuracy and reliability of Capital
Asset Pricing Mode (CAPM) and Fama-French Model for Pakistan Stock Exchange. A time …

This study empirically analyzes the three models of CAPM in order to get the best
determinants, and superlative model of CAPM in the context of Pakistan's Financial Sector …

This study investigates the impact of insider-ownership of publicly traded firms on their
performance, cost of debt (COD) and cost of equity. We use a sample of 104 non-finance …