Article aims to demonstrate the significant impact of dynamics of the relationship between financial intermediaries on the level of market volatility. Particularly important are the growing share of the links between hedge funds and other financial institutions. In order to demonstrate the...

We compute the shareholder value creation and the return of the companies in the IBEX 35 for the 19-year period 1991-201'3 The average return was 11%, but 2.9% was due to the decline in interest rates (from 13% to 5.5%). The shareholder value creation in the whole period was 23 billion euros,...

The discount rate is one of the most critical variables in every equity valuation. Against this background it is surprising that so far there is no generally accepted definition of this term. Literature provides quite different definitions: expected returns, conditionally expected returns or...

The Total Return (TR), also called “return including dividends” and “Total Index Return” provides the theoretical return of a share, assuming that dividends are re-invested to purchase additional shares.The Total Return for All Shareholders (TRAS) is the return that all the shareholders...

We calculate the shareholder returns of the companies in the Euro Stoxx 50 in the period 2004 - April 2020. We analyze 62 companies: 47 that were in the Euro Stoxx 50 in April 2020 and had trading records since December 2004 and 15 companies that had been in the Euro Stoxx 50 in the period. In...

Objective – This study aims to analyze the direct influence of external factors (inflation, foreign exchange rates, interest rate of Bank Indonesia) and internal (capital structure, liquidity) on Return On Equity (ROE) in companies that went public in Jakarta Islamic Index, analyze the...

The all-shareholder return is the return that all the shareholders of a company had in a period. It is equal to the hypothetical return of a unique shareholder of the company. It is also the return of a shareholder that always had a constant proportion (ie. 0,2%) of the shares.The all-period...

I review 150 textbooks on corporate finance and valuation published between 1979 and 2009 by authors such as Brealey, Myers, Copeland, Damodaran, Merton, Ross, Bruner, Bodie, Penman, Arzac… and find that their recommendations regarding the equity premium range from 3% to 10%, and that 51 books...

This paper explores the stock market performance of acquisitions and divestitures where both, one, or neither of the companies in the transaction are family firms. We find that acquirer shareholder returns are highest when family firms buy businesses from non-family firm divesters, especially...