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information about the firm's growth prospects. We show thatrms with positive private information can credibly signal their type to … information induces firms with good prospects to speed up investment, leading toa significant erosion of the option value of …
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This paper develops a tractable real options framework to analyze the eects of asym-metric information on investment … signal theirprivate information to outside investors using the timing of investment and/or the rm'sdebt-equity mix. Several … those implied bystandard real options models with perfect information.[...] …
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This paper develops a signalling game in which the decision to raise public equityis a real option of the …rm. Firms may use multiple signals to reveal their type:the timing of the IPO, the fraction of shares issued and the underpricing of shares.The model provides a tractable approach for...
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Information asymmetry is a necessary prerequisite for testing adverse selection.This paper applies this sequence of … information asymmetry.[...] …
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information uncertainty.[...] …
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We find that stocks exhibiting high dispersion in analysts’ earnings forecasts do not onlyunderperform in the U.S. but also in many European countries. Testing for the dispersioneffect in many countries calls for adequate multiple testing controls and we show that theU.S. dispersion effect...
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