The paper tests an approach based on firm characteristics to imply cost of equity in Canadian dollar. Using a sample of Canadian non-financial firms represented in I/B/E/S and Compustat Canadian files, and along the lines of Gebhardt, Lee, Swaminathan (2001), the paper proposes a five-factor model to estimate cost of equity ex-ante for Canadian firms. The five factors are dispersion of analyst ...

Scholars have suggested that a firm’s reputation can provide it with a competitive advantage by attracting more, and possibly higher-caliber, applicants. No research has actually investigated this relationship, however, in large part because researchers have not assessed applicant pool characteristics but instead have measured applicants’ intentions. Therefore, we conducted two studies to inves...

We study a structural model that allows us to examine how credit spreads are affected by the interaction of macroeconomic conditions and firm characteristics. Unlike most other structural models, our model explicitly incorporates equilibrium macroeconomic dynamics and models a firm’s cash flow as primitive processes. Corporate securities are priced as contingent claims written on cash flows. De...