Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital

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dc.contributor.authorLambert, Richard A
dc.contributor.authorLeuz, Christian
dc.contributor.authorVerrecchia, Robert E
dc.date2023-05-17T14:18:38.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T11:48:59Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T11:48:59Z
dc.date.issued2007-05-01
dc.date.submitted2016-05-27T10:45:27-07:00
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/1105
dc.legacy.articleid1071
dc.legacy.fields10.1111/j.1475-679X.2007.00238.x
dc.legacy.fulltexturlhttps://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=accounting_papers&unstamped=1
dc.rightsThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: LAMBERT, R., LEUZ, C. and VERRECCHIA, R. E. (2007), Accounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital. Journal of Accounting Research, 45: 385–420., which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1111/j.1475-679X.2007.00238.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving: http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms.
dc.source.beginpage385
dc.source.endpage420
dc.source.issue59
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.journalAccounting Papers
dc.source.journaltitleJournal of Accounting Research
dc.source.peerreviewedtrue
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.source.volume45
dc.subject.othercost of capital
dc.subject.otherdisclosure
dc.subject.otherinformation risk
dc.subject.otherasset pricing
dc.subject.otherAccounting
dc.titleAccounting Information, Disclosure, and the Cost of Capital
dc.typeArticle
digcom.contributor.authorLambert, Richard A
digcom.contributor.authorLeuz, Christian
digcom.contributor.authorVerrecchia, Robert E
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digcom.identifier.submissionpathaccounting_papers/59
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upenn.schoolDepartmentCenterAccounting Papers
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