The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether human capital affects firm value by following a positive methodological approach. According to the clas- sical theory of economic growth, the output of a country depends on its human and physical capital. At the micro-level, the same theory...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether human capital affects firm value by following a positive methodological approach. According to the clas- sical theory of economic growth, the output of a country depends on its human and physical capital. At the micro-level, the same theory...

Purpose - This paper investigates whether the macroeconomic factors affect the firm stock returns volatility differently depending on their location in different sectors. For this purpose, daily financial time-series data for 683 firms located in nine US sectors for the period of 2000 to 2017...