The cost of equity capital has been an important topic to both academics and practitioners. In this study, we examine the effect information technology (IT) intensity on the industry cost of equity capital. Findings generally support the idea that IT intensity is a significant factor driving industry cost of equity capital. Further, an interaction between IT intensity and time suggests that IT ...

the present paper investigates the effect of production factors, including technology, physical capital and labour on the energy consumption intensity of iran. for this purpose, time series data during the period of (1974-2007) have been analyzed within cobb–douglas production function framework. the results of the study indicate that the technology and the physical capital have caused the aver...

Microblog is a platform for publishing and sharing short (140 characters or less) messages with others within a user’s social network – is an Internet medium that is growing exponentially and changing the way people communicate on the Internet. To explore the effect of microblogging on interpersonal relationships, this study examines the relationships between narcissism, social anxiety, and mic...

This paper shows that on average, firms with higher levels of capital intensity experience larger responses in equity price to monetary policy action. This heterogeneous effect is economically large and statistically significant at high levels of confidence. These results suggest that monetary policy has important and substantial distributional implications on the US economy that can be measure...

In this study, we look at the determinants of industry-level capital intensities. Using cross-country data, we find that the most important determinant is a country’s factor endowment. In addition, we find that measures of labor regulation and financial development also matter: less restrictive labor regulations and greater financial development are associated with lower and higher capital-inte...

Tax aggressiveness is an action to manipulate the amount of taxable profit or save tax costs that should be paid by company. The factor influences it mainly cost, because greater company's through capital intensity and inventory intensity, will reduce burden. Aggressive actions tend carried out large companies. purpose this study was determine how much impact firm size, on aggressiveness. resea...

-Increasing returns to scale (RTS) is frequently postulated as affecting productivity in surface coal mining. However, it is not clear whether increased capital intensity or increased output is the relevant phenomenon. A ray-homothetic production function that incorporates the capital-labor mix and fixed site geology into the scale elasticity is presented and estimated with a micro (mine level)...