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Buyout Activity : The Impact of Aggregate Discount Rates
Haddad, Valentin - 2016
Buyout booms form in response to declines in the aggregate risk premium. We document that the equity risk premium is the primary determinant of buyout activity rather than credit-specific conditions. We articulate a simple explanation for this phenomenon: a low risk premium increases the present...
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Uncertainty and Economic Activity : Evidence from Business Survey Data
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2010
What is the impact of time-varying business uncertainty on economic activity? Using partly confidential business survey data from the U.S. and Germany in structural VARs, we find that positive innovations to business uncertainty lead to prolonged declines in economic activity. In contrast, their...
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Investment Tournaments : When Should a Rational Agent Put All Eggs in One Basket?
Schwarz, Michael - 2009
In this paper we study "investment tournaments," a class of decision problems that involve gradual allocation of … investment among several alternatives whose values are subject to exogenous shocks. The decision-maker's payoff is determined by … broad range of cases it is optimal for the decision-maker in each time period to allocate all resources to the most …
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Affective Decision Making Under Uncertainty : Risk, Ambiguity and Black Swans
Brown, Donald J. - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
This book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty. It presents various …
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One Size Doesn't Fit All : Heterogeneous Depositor Compensation During Periods of Uncertainty
Artavanis, Nikolaos; Paravisini, Daniel; Robles-Garcia, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a new approach to identify different categories of depositors during periods of uncertainty and quantify their compensation to remain in the bank. We isolate withdrawals due to liquidity needs, deterioration of fundamentals, and expectation about withdrawal behavior of other...
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Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
Porta, Rafael La - 1999
We present a model of the effects of legal protection of minority shareholders and of cash flow ownership by a controlling shareholder on the valuation of firms. We then test this model using a sample of 371 large firms from 27 wealthy economies. Consistent with the model, we find evidence of...
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Innovation and Market Value
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1999
Recent research on financial market valuation of the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms is surveyed. The motivation for using a market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature that relates...
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Commercializing Growth : Connecting Valuation with Management and Governance Methodologies
Schaufeld, Jerry - 2021
valuation of today—an arcane, statistical methodology—and bring it into the realm of modern management decision making. There is … of the entity. What You Will Learn Allocate growth resources, including the decision process, internal governance, and …
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Is Stock Index Membership for Sale?
Li, Kun; Liu, Xin; Wei, Shang-jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
While major stock market indices are followed by large monetary investments, we document that membership decisions for the S&P 500 index have a nontrivial amount of discretion. We show that firms' purchases of S&P ratings appear to improve their chance of entering the index (but purchases of...
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Das Residualgewinnverfahren aus Sicht der funktionalen Unternehmensbewertung
Lohse, Carolin Maria - 2021
Zum Entwicklungsstand des Residualgewinnverfahrens -- Grundlagen der funktionalen Unternehmensbewertung -- Grundform … neben der Eingruppierung des Residualgewinnverfahrens seine Analyse aus Sicht der funktionalen Unternehmensbewertung vor … Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Investitionstheorie und Unternehmensbewertung an der FernUniversität in Hagen promoviert. …
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