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The impact on the cost of equity capital in the effects of integrated reporting quality

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  • Filippo Vitolla
  • Antonio Salvi
  • Nicola Raimo
  • Felice Petruzzella
  • Michele Rubino

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Integrated reporting is a new reporting tool that includes financial and nonfinancial information, which represents a natural evolution of the corporate reporting movement. Although this practice has gained increasing attention in recent years, both from an academic and professional perspective, the quality of the reports still represents a critical aspect due to inadequate investigation. Only a few studies have focused on integrated reporting quality, and contributions on the effects of quality have been even rarer. This study aims to investigate on the impact of integrated reporting quality on the firm's cost of equity capital, owing to the paramount importance of this parameter for firms and investors. Our results highlight that integrated reporting quality has a significantly negative association with the cost of equity capital, suggesting that integrated reporting quality represents an innovative way to reduce the cost of equity. To our knowledge, this is the first study that examines the relationship between integrated reporting quality and a firm's cost of equity.

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  • Filippo Vitolla & Antonio Salvi & Nicola Raimo & Felice Petruzzella & Michele Rubino, 2020. "The impact on the cost of equity capital in the effects of integrated reporting quality," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(2), pages 519-529, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:29:y:2020:i:2:p:519-529
    DOI: 10.1002/bse.2384
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