At each time, a firm facing uncertainty over future market conditions have to make a decision whether they should continue to produce or stop the process? As the traditional principle, the firm will go out of production when the price of the typical unit does not cover the average variable cost...

Market risk measurement has a long tradition in finance and it has been drawing the attention of many academic studies since Markowitz (1952). But the CAPM model (and derived models) assumptions have been targets of much criticism, in the sense that beta estimation may be imprecise. The...

We show that multiple shareholder control (MSC) can arise as a signaling mechanism. A controlling shareholder can sell her shares because of personal liquidity needs or because of bad fundamentals of the asset she owns. Because the market is unable to distinguish the motivation for sale and the...

At each time, a firm facing uncertainty over future market conditions have to make a decision whether they should continue to produce or stop the process? As the traditional principle, the firm will go out of production when the price of the typical unit does not cover the average variable cost...

We show that multiple shareholder control (MSC) can arise as a signaling mechanism. A controlling shareholder can sell her shares because of personal liquidity needs or because of bad fundamentals of the asset she owns. Because the market is unable to distinguish the motivation for sale and the...

We investigate the role of managerial overconfidence in shaping corporate debt financing policy. Using a sample of 229 small French companies listed during 2003–2012, we show that overconfident owner–managers opt for less levered financing structures than their non-owner peers. Additional...

We develop a theoretical model of managerial myopia based on the Q theory of investment. In this model, the manager chooses both investment quantity and the investment horizon. The manager may be myopic, causing an excess weight to be placed by the manager on short term profits, relative to...

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...

Studies on real estate economics neglected the relationship between hedonic prices and capitalization rate, thus considering the hedonic models and the income approach as two separate and alternative appraisal methods. In this short theoretical paper we show that integration is possible and...