I examine whether a bankruptcy reform that increases the ability to renegotiate debt contracts when a firm is in distress affects firms' timely loss recognition. The legal changes that are embedded in the reform are expected to decrease renegotiation costs and the risk of coordination failure in...

This paper examines the relation between information differences across investors (i.e., information asymmetry) and the cost of capital, and establishes that with perfect competition information asymmetry makes no difference. Instead, a firm's cost of capital is governed solely by the average...