Grantley Tayler Grant Richardson Ahmed Al-Hadi and Ivan Obaydin. Abstract: This study examines the effect of tax haven utilization on the implied cost of equity capital (ICOE) based on a sample of publicly-listed U.S. multinational firms over the 2006–2014 period. Our regression results show...

This research investigates the association between discretionary disaggregation in mandatory risk disclosures, audit conservatism and the implied cost of capital (ICOE). Based on a sample of 141 financial firms from six GCC countries over the 2007-2011 period, we find that the ICOE is...

This research investigates the association between discretionary disaggregation in mandatory risk disclosures, audit conservatism and the implied cost of capital (ICOE). Based on a sample of 141 financial firms from six GCC countries over the 2007-2011 period, we find that the ICOE is...

We investigate the association between the existence of the risk committee and the implied cost of equity capital in a unique institutional setting where the formation of the board risk committee as part of the risk governance mechanism is not mandatory in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...