The Effect of Accounting and Market Variables Asymmetry Information on the Common stock Cost of Capital

Document Type : Original Article

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10.22034/iaar.2014.104399

Abstract

This paper examines the effect of accounting variable and market variables on the cost of stock capital in Iran. The accruals are used as the accounting variable and the bid-ask spread and also the adverse selection component of the bid-ask spread is used as the market variables. The sample research contains 70 active corporations in Tehran Stock Market (TSE). The Fama and French model [1993]is used for data analyzing. Overall, our results show that the market variables have positively effect on the cost of stock capital but, the accounting variable has not the effect.

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