Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the seasonal effect in the value premium puzzle. It studies whether the book-to-market effect is an outcome of the January effect observed among stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses returns of portfolios based on...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between the conditional variance of the factors from the Fama–French three-factor model and macroeconomic risk, where macroeconomic risk is proxied by the conditional variance for a default risk premium and real gross domestic product...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine residual value risk modelling issues with a focus on automotive lease portfolios. Residual value risk is approached through a re-sampling technique that provides the probability density function of losses and VaR measures for credit portfolios....

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the exchange rate exposure of UK non-financial companies from January 1981 to December 2001. Design/methodology/approach -The study employs different exchange rate measures and adopts an equally weighted exchange rate. The analyses are...

Purpose - Recently numerous mergers have been realized. The paper aims to discuss famous static models about the exchange ratio. The paper then seeks to propose a simple dynamical model to valuate both the immediate merger's effects and the delayed ones. Design/methodology/approach - The paper...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the relationship between real investment and stock prices for the USA for 1960-2005 in view of distinct economic regimes during the 40-year period. Design/methodology/approach - The paper employs simple models of investment, checks for...

Purpose –Maximum Loss was one of the risk measures proposed as alternatives to Value at Risk following criticism that Value at Risk is not coherent. Although the power of Maximum Loss is recognised for non-linear portfolios, there are arguments that for linear portfolios Maximum Loss does not...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which founding-family firms create value. In particular, the paper investigates how agency costs and monitoring capabilities influence the value creation process. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical analysis relies...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between the conditional variance of the factors from the Fama–French three‐factor model and macroeconomic risk, where macroeconomic risk is proxied by the conditional variance for a default risk premium and real gross domestic product...

Purpose – Maximum Loss was one of the risk measures proposed as alternatives to Value at Risk following criticism that Value at Risk is not coherent. Although the power of Maximum Loss is recognised for non‐linear portfolios, there are arguments that for linear portfolios Maximum Loss does...