Internal Versus External Equity Funding Sources and Earnings Response Coefficients

Internal Versus External Equity Funding Sources and Earnings Response Coefficients

Because of transactions costs and investor/manager information asymmetries, internally generated funds should be less costly than funds raised by issuing shares. This suggests that as firms use more internal funds relative to external equity, their costs of equity capital will fall and the rate the market uses to discount unexpected earnings of such firms will be lower. We hypothesize that (1) ...

the effect of quality of earnings on earnings response coefficients

so far, the financial experts could not calculate independent earnings to have a necessary quality. in this case, they can reach a range of earnings, which show a more correct form of quality of earnings, of course with performing the suitable equitabilities. therefore, the concept of quality of earnings is not a fixed defining. however, it is a relative concept that depends to its relation to ...

JOHN DILWORTH Internal versus External Representation

earnings attributes and cost of equity

some of inherent limitations of accrual accounting make the actual earnings and accounting earnings different. so assessment of reported earnings quality has allocated extensive bulk of accounting studies to itself. the decrease information quality such as earnings quality increases information risk and also the investor’s risk. it’ll increase their expected return. since cost of equity is the ...

External Funding and Irreversible Investment

This paper endogenizes the cost of external funds and explores the implications on irreversible investments. The investment strategy incorporates equilibrium feedback that result from a bargaining process between the firm and a lender. Contrary to debt issuance, tax benefits and distress costs cannot be internalized by the firm. “Bad news” are less costly for the firm that has incentives to acc...