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Do Sell-Side Analysts Say "Buy" While Whispering "Sell"?
Hirshleifer, David; Shi, Yushui; Wu, Weili - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how sell-side equity analysts strategically disclose information of differing quality to the public versus the buy-side mutual fund managers to whom they are connected. We consider cases in which analysts recommend that the public buys a stock, but some fund managers sell it. We...
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RIM-Based Value Premium and Factor Pricing Using Value-Price Divergence
Cong, Lin William; George, Nathan Darden; Wang, Guojun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document that value-to-price, the ratio of Residual-Income-Model-based valuation to market price, subsumes the power of book-to-market ratio and many other value or quality measures in predicting stock returns. Long-short value-to-price portfolios hedge against momentum, revitalize the...
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An Intangibles-Adjusted Profitability Factor
Jagannathan, Ravi; Korajczyk, Robert A.; Wang, Kai - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
earnings when measuring the return on equity of firms while constructing the profitability factor in the Fama and French (2015 …) five factor model. The profitability factor we construct has significant alpha relative to many extant multi-factor asset …-pricing models, including the standard Fama-French five factor model. When the profitability factor in the Fama and French (2015 …
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Operating Hedge and Gross Profitability Premium
Kogan, Leonid; Li, Jun; Zhang, Harold H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
effect is weaker for more profitable firms, giving rise to a gross profitability premium. Moreover, gross profitability and …
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Internalizing Externalities : Disclosure Regulation for Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling Activity and Water Quality
Bonetti, Pietro; Leuz, Christian; Michelon, Giovanna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The rise of shale gas and tight oil development has triggered a major debate about hydraulic fracturing (HF). In an effort to mitigate risks from HF, especially with respect to water quality, many U.S. states have introduced disclosure mandates for HF wells and fracturing fluids. We use this...
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Accounting for Environmental Activity : Measuring Public Environmental Expenditures and the Environmental Goods and Services Sector in the US
Fixler, Dennis J.; Hass, Julie L.; Highfill, Tina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How much of the economy is focused on protecting, rehabilitating, or managing the environment? To answer this question, we develop a proof-of-concept environmental activity account to quantify the environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) in the United States. Methodologically, we employ a...
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Does Inflation Affect Earnings Relevance? A Century-Long Analysis
Binz, Oliver; Graham, John R.; Kubic, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Financial reports present assets, liabilities, and earnings on a nominal basis (unadjusted for inflation). Using a novel dataset of nearly a century of financial reports, this paper examines whether and how inflation affects the relation between accounting earnings and stock market value, i.e.,...
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Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
Chassang, Sylvain - 2008
We examine the mechanics of deterrence and intervention when fear is a motive for conflict. We contrast results obtained in a complete information setting, where coordination is easy, to those obtained in a setting with strategic risk, where players have different assessments of their...
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Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2006
previous Boston mechanism, a priority matching mechanism, and the case in favor of the change to a strategy-proof mechanism … unassigned students could have been assigned to one of their stated choices with a different strategy under the current mechanism …. This interaction between sophisticated and unsophisticated players identifies a new rationale for strategy-proof mechanisms …
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Capital Share Risk in U.S. Asset Pricing
Lettau, Martin - 2014
A single macroeconomic factor based on growth in the capital share of aggregate income exhibits significant explanatory power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price estimates that are of the same sign and similar in...
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