Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Cost of Equity of ASEAN-5 Public Companies

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure, leverage, and ownership structure – consisting of institutional ownership, managerial ownership and concentrated ownership – on cost of equity with book-to-market ratio and firm size as control variables. The population was non-financial public companies listed in ASEAN. There was a total of 76 companies obtained using a purposive sampling technique. The data was analyzed using the multiple regression technique. The results show that the data is normally distributed and has met the requirements for using the multiple linear regression models. The findings indicate that the CSR and leverage have a positive and significant influence on cost of equity. Similarly, the institutional ownership also has a positive and significant influence on cost of equity. However, the managerial ownership and concentrated ownership have a negative and significant influence on cost of equity. Meanwhile, the book-to-market ratio has a negative and significant influence on cost of equity. In contrast, the firm size has a positive and significant influence on cost of equity.