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This research investigates the relationship between income smoothing and cost of equity. This event study has been done using observations analysis. Cost of equity has been calculated using four models: Gebhardt et al (2001), Claus and Thomas (2001), Gode and Mohanram (2003) and Easton(2004). The sample consists of 87 companies in a 15-year time period from 1996 to 2010 and hypotheses test were run using 8,526 year / company observations. The results show that using Gebhardt et al (2001) and Gode & Mohanram (2003) models for calculating cost of equity, there is a significant and positive relationship between income smoothing and cost of equity.

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