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Determining the cost of equity is one of the most difficult problems in corporate finance. In this paper, we present a simple estimation example using an internet start-up company. We use public firm comparables for beta, making adjustments for leverage using Harris and Pringle’s (1985)...
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(VF)L’article présente un modèle décrivant le partage de la valeur créée entre le dirigeant et l’actionnaire. Le modèle montre que le limogeage représente une menace très dissuasive pour le dirigeant qui suffit le plus souvent à réfréner son appétit pour les prélèvements...
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(VF)L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser la relation entre les politiques de distribution des entreprises familiales cotées et deux grands types de conflits d’agence dans les entreprises familiales, entre actionnaires et dirigeant (type I), et entre actionnaires majoritaires et...
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Two recently published studies argue that conventional parameterizations of cumulative prospect theory (CPT) fail to … resolve the St. Petersburg Paradox. Yet as a descriptive theory CPT is not intended to account for the local …
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We find that in cumulative prospect theory (CPT) with a concave value function in gains, a lottery with finite expected … value may have infinite subjective value. This problem does not occur in expected utility theory. The paradox occurs in …
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Conventional parameterizations of cumulative prospect theory do not explain the St. Petersburg paradox. To do so, the …
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The behavior known as the gambler's fallacy is exhibited when gamblers increase their wager after a series of losses. The conventional interpretation of this behavior is that, after a series of losses, the gambler views the probability of winning as having increased. However, if the probability...
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implausible for finite payoffs levels, expected utility theory—as well as its standard generalizations such as cumulative prospect … theory—are apparently unable to explain a finite willingness-to-pay. The present paper presents first an experimental study …
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