Title
Product market competition, corporate governance, and cost of capital
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-2014
Abstract
We investigate how market competition and corporate governance affect a firm's cost of equity and debt. We find firms with better corporate governance have a lower cost of equity and cost of debt. However, we find that the negative relation between cost of capital and governance primarily holds for firms in highly competitive industries. The relation between governance and cost of capital does not hold if the industry competition is weak. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Applied Economics Letters
Volume
21
Issue
13
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Hodges, Charles W., Bingxuan Lin, and Chen Miao Lin. "Product market competition, corporate governance, and cost of capital." Applied Economics Letters 21, 13 (2014): 906-913. doi: 10.1080/13504851.2014.896978.