The Relation between Reporting Quality and Financing and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Financing Capacity

Posted: 5 Mar 2014

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Karthik Balakrishnan

Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

John E. Core

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Rodrigo S. Verdi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Date Written: March 1, 2014

Abstract

We use changes in the value of a firm's real estate assets as an exogenous change in a firm's financing capacity to examine (1) the relation between reporting quality and financing and investment conditional on this change, and (2) firms’ reporting quality responses to the change in financing capacity. We find that financing and investment by firms with higher reporting quality is less affected by changes in real estate values than are financing and investment by firms with lower reporting quality. Further, firms increase reporting quality in response to decreases in financing capacity. Our findings contribute to the literature on reporting quality and investment, and on the determinants of reporting quality choices.

Keywords: Reporting quality, investment, collateral, financing constraints

JEL Classification: D20, E51, G30, G31, G32, M41

Suggested Citation

Balakrishnan, Karthik and Core, John E. and Verdi, Rodrigo S., The Relation between Reporting Quality and Financing and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Financing Capacity (March 1, 2014). Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2404420

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