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This paper contrasts the valuation of accounting numbers related to two classes of assets - the internally managed, fully-controlled assets versus the "significant influence" investments, that is, investments where the investing firm exercises influence, but not control, over the assets. We find...
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Investment professionals, particularly financial analysts or security analysts evaluate securities and try to determine characteristics of securities and to identify mispriced securities. For that purpose they use different models to estimate the intrinsic value of the common stocks. Traditional...
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Stocks with high idiosyncratic volatility perform poorly relative to low idiosyncratic volatility stocks. We offer a novel explanation of this anomaly based on real options, which is consistent with earlier findings on idiosyncratic volatility (the positive contemporaneous relation between...
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Unlike tranches of synthetic CDOs, that depend only on the defaults of the underlying securities, tranches of cashflow …-)analytic methods exist for pricing synthetic CDO tranches (Hull and White 2004), no equivalent methods exist for pricing cashflow CDO … renders cashflow CDOs amenable to (semi-)analytic pricing. The complication of needing the joint distribution of interest and …
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In this paper we consider the optimal stopping problem for general dynamic monetary utility functionals. Sufficient conditions for the Bellman principle and the existence of optimal stopping times are provided. Particular attention is payed to representations which allow for a numerical...
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In this paper we consider the optimal stopping problem for general dynamic monetary utility functionals. Sufficient conditions for the Bellman principle and the existence of optimal stopping times are provided. Particular attention is payed to representations which allow for a numerical...
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We present a machine learning approach to firm valuation that requires only historical accounting data as input. The machine learning model generates a median absolute percentage error of 17.2% in out-of-sample firm value predictions. The model out-performs a sample of final-year finance...
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