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The recent notion of Average Internal Rate of Return (AIRR) [Magni 2010, The Engineering Economist, 55(2), 150 …-180] completely solves the long-standing problem of the internal rate of return (IRR). While the AIRR is a return measure, this paper … depend on the market rate, and is a return measure, for it is a mean of one-period return rates, weighed by the outstanding …
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other asset markets. These premiums have their roots in fundamentals and will vary as a function of uncertainty about the … economy, the risk aversion of investors, information uncertainty and fear of catastrophe, among other factors. In practice …
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interest rate uncertainty on investment decision. When the interest rate is low an increase in interest rate volatility … shadow rate is substantially below the bound, the decision to invest or wait no longer depends on interest rate uncertainty …This paper examines irreversible investment decisions when the interest rate is stochastic and constrained by a zero …
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This paper examines the effects of liquidity on stock and portfolio risk measures by analyzing Value at Risk (VaR). Using daily stock returns and firm market capitalization, empirical calculations confirmed that VaR has not yet succeeded to prove patterns of relation between risk and liquidity,...
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The properties of information, including "information uncertainty", can be understood only Bayesianly. Common … formulations that define information uncertainty in terms of just statistical "precision" (i.e. sampling variance), or any one … affecting f(x|φ,⋅), information uncertainty alters posterior beliefs f(φ|x,⋅), and therefore also asset prices and expected …
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This paper characterizes how firms' strategic interaction in product markets affects the industry dynamics of investment and expected returns. In imperfectly competitive industries, a firm's exposure to systematic risk is jointly affected by its own investment strategy and the investment...
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scaling method derives Single correlations from Class. Return expectations are split into an interest rate part and a spread …
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Investors' perception of performance is biased because the relevant measure, returns, is rarely displayed. Major indices ignore dividends, inducing mechanical underperformance on ex-dividend days. Newspapers are more pessimistic on these days, consistent with mistaking the index for a return....
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Quality, defined as companies with high returns on capital, good quality of earnings, and low leverage, has substantial superior investment return predictability. Quality firms as selected by our strategy generate substantially superior returns even though they are significantly larger than the...
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We consider a risk-averse entrepreneur who invests in a project with idiosyncratic risk and takes debt financing for diversification benefits. In contrast to the literature, we assume the entrepreneur is unable to get a loan from a bank directly because of the low creditability of the...
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