Theoretical and empirical research suggests that firms can reduce their cost of capital by providing more informative disclosures about the value of their securities. We provide convergent evidence on this issue by demonstrating that improved disclosure reduces cost of capital in a controlled...

Improved disclosure increases prices and liquidity in a laboratory financial market, and does so more strongly when investors face the risk of unpredictable demand shocks. These results are consistent with a broad class of theoretical and empirical studies. Disclosure has larger effects on...

We provide evidence that credit investors do not fully impound the implications of firms' cost structure when pricing credit default swaps. Information about firms' cost structure is not disclosed and needs to be estimated. Furthermore, the performance implications of firms' cost structure...

Experiments are an underused method in finance and have natural advantages for behavioral finance. Experiments can provide a useful means to circumvent several common econometric issues such as omitted variables, unobserved variables, and self-selection. Experiments can extend the theoretical...