This paper examines the relationship between two important financial variables (price informativeness, and cost of capital) and information asymmetry, controlling for the total amount of information in the market. In the model, each investor has a private signal. We measure information asymmetry...

The paper tests if the documented size effect in the Indian stock market is an anomaly with respect to market efficiency or an artifact with respect to data or methodology employed. The study employs two related datasets (one being held constant through the study period, the other being revised...

It is well-known that stock prices fluctuate far more than dividends. Traditional valuation methods are not able to depict this fact. In this paper we incorporate excess volatility into a simple DCF model by considering an autoregressive cash flows process with random coefficients. We show that...

Part I: The Concept of Value, Existence of a Firm, and The Objective Value Maximization -- AN OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE VALUATION -- CORPORATE VALUE CREATION -- TIME VALUE OF MONEY -- SECURITY MARKETS -- Part II: Financial Information as a Source of Valuation Inputs -- OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL...