I investigate whether information quality affects the cost of equity capital through
liquidity risk. Liquidity risk is the sensitivity of stock returns to unexpected changes in
market liquidity; recent asset pricing literature has emphasized the importance of this
systematic risk. I find that higher information quality is associated with lower liquidity
risk and that the reduction in cost of capital due to this association is economically
significant. I also find that the negative association between information quality and
liquidity risk is stronger in times of large shocks to market liquidity.