Political connections and the cost of equity capital

By Narjess Boubakri, Omrane Guedhami, Dev R. Mishra, Walid Saffar. 2012

720 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b9ad39d6d92d76eb036214d621a5ed93d8cdf24a

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In Accounting

1. Lixin Colin Xu
2. Meijun Qian
3. Gary Gang Tian
4. Robert J. Cull
5. Xiaofei Pan
6. Wei Li
7. Bo Sun
8. Wael Rouatbi

In Strategy and Management

1. Meijun Qian
2. Gary Gang Tian
3. Lixin Colin Xu
4. Robert J. Cull
5. Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong
6. Tazeeb S. Rajwani
7. Xiaping Cao
8. Wael Rouatbi

Citations in the corpus

• Corporate Political Connections and Tax Aggressiveness (2013, neutral): “For example, Boubakri et al. (2012) find that investors require a lower cost of equity for politically connected firms around the world.”
• Low-Carbon City Construction and Corporate Carbon Reduction Performance: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China (2021, background): “Supports such as cost (Boubakri et al., 2012), corporate assistance from the government (Faccio et al.”
• Government Connections and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Large Representative Sample of Chinese Firms (2013, positive): “Their large SOE rivals also have better access to bank loans, as the state-owned banks show strong bias in favor of SOEs in their lending (Boyreau-Debray, 2003; Cull and Xu, 2003; Gordon and Li, 2003; Allen, Qian, and Qian, 2005; Boyreau-Debray and Wei, 2005; Cull, Xu, and Zhu, 2009; and Gordon and…”