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We examine the effects of organization capital — evident in management quality practices — on firms' implied cost of equity. We show that superior management practices decrease firms' cost of equity capital. This novel finding, robust to a battery of sensitivity analyses and to endogeneity...
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We investigate ratings quality across uncertain and normal times proxied by variations in economic policy uncertainty. We find that increased policy uncertainty is associated with weaker rating standards. This finding is unrelated to variations in macroeconomic conditions and holds when we use...
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We examine the influence of institutional investors' investment horizons on a firm's cost of equity. We argue that the cost of equity will decrease in the presence of institutional investors with longer-term investment horizons due to improved monitoring and information quality. Our empirical...
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This study provides novel evidence of the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on investment sensitivity to cash flows. We posit that CSR affects investment–cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) through information asymmetry and agency costs, commonly viewed as the two channels through which...
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