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A general equilibrium production economy with heterogeneous firms and irreversible investment generates the value premium. Investment irreversibility prevents unprofitable value firms from optimally scaling down their capital stock. In contrast, profitable and fast growing - growth - firms can...
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study the firm migration phenomenon across market-to-book ratio. In my model, investors' desire to diversify their … migration found in the data, and a nonlinear pattern in the conditional volatility of Tobin's q. In addition, since firms … inherit these properties, yielding asset-pricing implications in line with the empirical evidence, namely the value premium …
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study the firm migration phenomenon across market-to-book ratio. In my model, investors' desire to diversify their … migration found in the data, and a nonlinear pattern in the conditional volatility of Tobin's q. In addition, since firms … inherit these properties, yielding asset-pricing implications in line with the empirical evidence, namely the value premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008222
The ability of a nation to resist a crisis depends on the institutional or spatio-temporal fixes it possesses, which can buffer the effects of the crisis, switch the crisis to other nations or defer its effects to the future. Corporate governance configurations in a given country can function as...
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Public corporations are brandishing their political identities. They are increasingly taking stands and messaging on highly charged social issues: gun control, gender and race, immigration, abortion, reproductive rights, and free speech. Corporate scholars have paid scant attention to this...
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several asset pricing anomalies …
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We develop a firm valuation model with repeated expansion and contraction options to show operating profitability is a proxy for time-varying systematic risk. Relative to riskier assets, the proportionate value of contraction options increase as profitability falls, lowering the firm beta....
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In this article, we test the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) by measuring the … to risk. The performance was measured by using the capital asset pricing model with statistical inference. We find that …
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Drawing on the Carnegie tradition, this paper examines how the Greek government and its military apparatus handled an incident involving the islets of Imia, which led to a near-war with Turkey in 1996. This came about not merely as a result of escalating circumstances: there were failures in...
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In this paper we address the hard problem of search. Search is a pervasive phenomenon of biological and economic life. But search is hard—especially in uncertain and dynamic environments. We develop a generalized form of question-answer probing as a way of simplifying search, with implications...
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