A political involvement in any organisation has often proved to be profitable for such firms that are seeking support and favourable regulatory conditions. Though many studies have investigated the effect of the corporate lobbying activities on the organisations, no clear results have been...

The proportion of assets held by the average Canadian firm in the form of cash has increased steadily since the early 1990s, and is now roughly twice as large as in 1990. The literature has established that the cash-holding behaviour of firms is highly correlated with financial constraints and...

We give an overview and outlook of the field of reinforcement learning as it applies to solving financial applications of intertemporal choice. In finance, common problems of this kind include pricing and hedging of contingent claims, investment and portfolio allocation, buying and selling a...

Credit facilities in private equity, often referred to as “subscription lines” (SL), have become a topic of interest, sparking debates not only among researchers but also among practitioners. In this paper, we are the first to analyze their potential thoroughly by quantifying the impact on...

In this tutorial article, the strategies available to hedge market risks arising from different financing instruments are explained. Financial derivatives, whether futures or options have been widely applied in companies to mitigate or eliminate potential losses due to the uncertainty in...

We consider a firm's investment and financing decisions made by a group of which each individual may utilize different discount rates to price cash flow generated by the investment project. We show that a higher degree of decreasing impatience or a greater group diversity increases the project...

Do accruals-based accounting earnings provide better information to investors about future operating cash flows than operating cash flows themselves, as predicted by FASB's conceptual framework? The most recent evidence (Nallareddy et al., 2020) is that operating cash flows, measured correctly...

Investor attracting and keeping requires both successful management of a company's financial performance and an investor's behavior knowledge, as well as monitoring of stock market current trends. This paper contains the study results on the influence of public companies' financial performance...

Learning the pre limited liability value process of equity claims and its relationship to the stock price is an answer to the financial jeorpardy question when observed option prices are the answer being given by the market. Constant dollar equity holder values, prior to the imposition of...