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This paper deals with capital budgeting decisions under uncertainty. We present an Aggregate Return On Investment (AROI …), obtained as the ratio of total (undiscounted) cash flow to total invested capital and show that it is a genuine rate of return … ranks any bundle of different-risk competing projects. Relations with other criteria such as Modified Internal Rate of …
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The recent notion of Average Internal Rate of Return (AIRR) [Magni 2010, The Engineering Economist, 55(2), 150 …-180] completely solves the long-standing problem of the internal rate of return (IRR). While the AIRR is a return measure, this paper … depend on the market rate, and is a return measure, for it is a mean of one-period return rates, weighed by the outstanding …
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) connections existing between economic measures and accounting measures. In particular, the average accounting rate of return is … average accounting rate generates a decision rule which is logically equivalent to the NPV rule for both accept …/reject decisions and project ranking. The paper also shows that maximization of the simple arithmetic mean of residual incomes is …
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other asset markets. These premiums have their roots in fundamentals and will vary as a function of uncertainty about the … economy, the risk aversion of investors, information uncertainty and fear of catastrophe, among other factors. In practice …
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The high cost of capital for firms conducting medical research and development (R&D) has been partly attributed to the government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be compensated for it. We propose new and simple financial...
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interest rate uncertainty on investment decision. When the interest rate is low an increase in interest rate volatility … shadow rate is substantially below the bound, the decision to invest or wait no longer depends on interest rate uncertainty …This paper examines irreversible investment decisions when the interest rate is stochastic and constrained by a zero …
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This paper studies how expected returns interact with product market competition. The model predicts that (i) competition erodes markups, such that firms are more exposed to systematic risk; (ii) the threat of entry by new firms lowers exposure to systematic risk of incumbents; and (iii) higher...
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This paper examines the effects of liquidity on stock and portfolio risk measures by analyzing Value at Risk (VaR). Using daily stock returns and firm market capitalization, empirical calculations confirmed that VaR has not yet succeeded to prove patterns of relation between risk and liquidity,...
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The properties of information, including "information uncertainty", can be understood only Bayesianly. Common … formulations that define information uncertainty in terms of just statistical "precision" (i.e. sampling variance), or any one … affecting f(x|φ,⋅), information uncertainty alters posterior beliefs f(φ|x,⋅), and therefore also asset prices and expected …
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