International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?
Preprint
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper examines international differences in firms' cost of equity capital across 40 countries. We analyze whether the effectiveness of a country's legal iKeywords
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