The simple mechanics of capital budgeting decision techniques are complicated by presence of mutual exclusion, project contingencies, differing risk levels, and unequal lives. This paper examines another such complexity virtually ignored by financial management textbooks but present in virtually...

We assess the effect of four short-sale constraints on stock returns in isolation and in combination, in generally falling versus generally rising markets, and considering relative effects for large/mid-cap versus small/micro-cap firms. There is substantial evidence that our more fully specified...

This paper presents a synthesized model explaining the returns of short-sale constrained stocks. We combine short-sale constraints that were previously treated individually or in pairs into a more fully specified model. The model is also specified in generally falling versus generally rising...