Information and the Cost of Capital: The Easley-O’Hara (2004) Model with Endogenous Information Acquisition

Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 5-14, 2011

11 Pages Posted: 5 May 2011

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Greg Clinch

Macquarie Business School

Brett Lombardi

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; University of Melbourne - Department of Accounting & Business Information Systems

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Date Written: May 3, 2011

Abstract

We investigate the impact of endogenous information acquisition on Easley and O’Hara’s (2004) result that moving information from being publicly to privately available results in an increase in a firm’s cost of capital. As in Christensen et al. (2010), when the cost of information acquisition is fixed, Easley and O’Hara’s result reverses. We study two scenarios, however, where Easley and O’Hara’s result can continue to hold (i): where the cost of information acquisition is increasing in its precision, and (ii) where the benefits of acquiring private information span multiple firms.

Keywords: cost of capital, endogenous information acquisition

Suggested Citation

Clinch, Greg and Lombardi, Brett J. and Lombardi, Brett J., Information and the Cost of Capital: The Easley-O’Hara (2004) Model with Endogenous Information Acquisition (May 3, 2011). Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 5-14, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1830568

Greg Clinch (Contact Author)

Macquarie Business School ( email )

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Brett J. Lombardi

University of Melbourne - Department of Accounting & Business Information Systems ( email )

Victoria, 3010
Australia

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business ( email )

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Chicago, IL 60637
United States

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