A financial friction is a wedge between the return received by providers of financial capital—ultimately, consumers—and the cost of capital paid by businesses and consumers who use capital. I study two frictions. One raises the rental cost of capital to firms and the other raises the rental cost of housing and durable goods to consumers. My focus is on the effects of financial frictions—I take ...

the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of voluntary disclosure about corporate social responsibility (csr) on firm’s financial performance. first, a state of the art about corporate social responsibility and social reporting is presented. after that, the problems of measurement of csr are indicated and the hypotheses are proposed. in the empirical analysis, regression models are...

After adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for consolidated financial statements by European-listed companies, a number of European countries still require the use of local standards in the preparation of legal entity financial statements. This study investigates whether this requirement can be explained by a low demand for high-quality financial reporting and an orien...

I review empirical research on the relation between capital markets and financial statements. The principal sources of demand for capital markets research in accounting are fundamental analysis and valuation, tests of market efficiency, and the role of accounting numbers in contracts and the political process. The capital markets research topics of current interest to researchers include tests ...

I revisit the Great Inflation and the Great Moderation for nominal and real variables. I document a dichotomy in the evolution of the cyclical volatility of financial variables since the mid-1980s. While financial price variables are smoother during the Great Moderation, financial quantity measures experience an immoderation. A model with financial frictions and financial shocks allowing for st...

This paper proposes a framework for audited financial reporting that is intended to address major perceived limitations in current quality reporting principles. The paper thus addresses the potential decoupling problem between financial statement audits and what is being audited identified by Power (1997). Using an extended risk model, the framework not only identifies principles of quality fin...

in this article, i try to find out what are the effects of financial variablessuch as ratio of private sector deposits to gdp and ratio of bank credit toprivate sector to gdp and value of stocks trade in tehran stockexchange to total current value of stocks and private sector liquidity togdp on total investment.we use two models to test our hypothesis the first is a model for iranand the second...