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in growth ratio. We interpret the findings as outcomes reflecting displacements on the production isoquant, and show the …
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In a neoclassical investment model, returns and investment are linked. We show that the timing of investment and returns are also linked. Conditional on total investment, firms investing earlier in the year have lower returns than firms investing later in the year. We show empirical evidence...
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-sectional variation in this ratio. We interpret the findings as outcomes reflecting displacements on the production isoquant, and show an …
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proxy for time-varying systematic risk. Relative to riskier assets, the proportionate value of contraction options increase … losers with diverging operating profitability. Corroborating a risk-based explanation, the momentum results remain … unexplained by, among other things, empirical measures for information diffusion, information uncertainty, credit risk and …
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I show that an asset pricing model for the equity claims of a value-maximizing firm can be constructed from its optimal financial contracting behavior. I study a dynamic contracting model in which firms trade off the costs and benefits of a given promise to pay external lenders in a specific...
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Investment-based asset pricing research highlights the role of irreversibility as a determinant of firms' risk and … flexibility (i.e., contraction and expansion options) is to determine the relation between risk and operating leverage: risk … these characteristics in stock returns and risk …
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We show that a model featuring an average commodity factor, a carry factor, and a momentum factor is capable of describing the cross-sectional variation of commodity returns. More parsimonious one- and two-factor models that feature only the average and/or carry factors are rejected. To provide...
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We provide a novel, supply network-based perspective on inventory productivity and incentives for its improvement. Using data from 2003 to 2019, we find that inventory productivity reduces materially and statistically significantly for firms located upstream in the supply network, and increases...
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It is argued that the observed return rates on capital at firm-level have an upward bias if firms are producing with unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is proved empirically. Furthermore, making unobserved...
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