Research Topics in Finance - Cost of Equity Capital

Research Topics in Finance - Cost of Equity Capital

How Cost of Equity Capital is Related to:

• customer concentration risk

• market structure uncertainty

• risk disclosures

• voluntary disclosures

• intellectual capital disclosures

• financial reporting frequency

• corporate social responsibility disclosure

• foreign shocks

• CEO general managerial skills

• agency costs

• management earning forecasts

• stock splits

• trading continuity

• trading volume

• legal protection of investors

• corporate governance

• management entrenchement

• political connections of owners and managers

• multiple large shareholders

• family ownership

• foreign exchange risk

• country risk

• unlevered beta

• corporate derivative use

• hedging decisions

• industry classification

• informed trading and noise trading

• corporate national and international diversifications

• inflation

• capital structure

• use of leverage