The main objective of this paper is to estimate the cost of road traffic accidents in Egypt. The Human Capital (HC) approach, specifically the Gross-Loss-of-Output methodology, is adopted for estimation. Moreover, cost values obtained by previous national literature are updated using the inflation rates. The results indicate an estimated cost of road traffic accidents in Egypt of approximately ...

We reexamine the relation between disclosure indices and cost of equity capital employing an empirical specification similar to that Botosan (1997) for a substantially larger sample over extended time frame made possible by textual analysis. Our results provide no support hypothesis negative implied capital. Rather, consistent with bias as proxy expected return depicted Hughes, Liu, Liu (2009),...