The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 is the most important legislation affecting corporate financial reporting enacted in the United States since the 1930s. Its purpose is to improve the accuracy and reliability of accounting information that is reported to investors. We examine stock price...

Because of transactions costs and investor/manager information asymmetries, internally generated funds should be less costly than funds raised by issuing common shares. This suggests that as firms use more internal funds relative to external equity, their costs of equity capital will fall and...