TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tran, Duc Hung
T1  - Multiple corporate governance attributes and the cost of capital – Evidence from Germany
T2  - The British Accounting Review
N2  - This paper investigates the extent to which corporate governance affects the cost of debt and equity capital of German exchange-listed companies. I examine corporate governance along three dimensions: financial information quality, ownership structure and board structure. The results suggest that firms with high levels of financial transparency and bonus compensations face lower cost of equity. In addition, block ownership is negatively related to firms' cost of equity when the blockholders are other firms, managers or founding-family members. Consistent with the conjecture that agency costs increase with firm size, I find significant cost of debt effects only in the largest German companies. Here, the creditors demand lower cost of debt from firms with block ownerships held by corporations or banks. My findings demonstrate that a uniform set of governance attributes is unlikely to satisfy suppliers of debt and equity capital equally.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/8639
SN  - 0890-8389
VL  - 46
IS  - 2
SP  - 179
EP  - 197
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -