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This paper studies the relationship between asset growth and idiosyncratic stock return volatility. Empirically, in the cross-section, firms' idiosyncratic return volatility has a V-shaped relationship with their asset growth rate. In the time series, dispersion across firms in asset growth...
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-determinant for the successful IPO deal completion. We propose the Ledenyov theory on the origins of the IPO underpricing and long …
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Over the last two decades, a number of financial disasters have occurred due to failure in risk management procedures. If some, as the Asian financial crisis, had a very much more muted global impact (even though they sent shock waves through global financial markets, the main damage were fairly...
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Firm Profitability - Does it really matter for shareholder return or ROE (return on equity)? Does this question sound oxymoron and antithetic? Not really. On the contrary, evidence has surfaced that Returns on equity - based on the shareholders' equity accounted in the balance sheet - is not...
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The theory of cost of capital (long-term) assets [Sharpe, 1964, Lintner, 1965, Mossin, 1966] based on G. Markovits … is substantially uniform concerning risks of the assets addressing on it. However this theory doesn't assume possibility … changes, the basic theory isn't capable in such conditions to give an objective assessment of assets. At the same time …
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Most firms face some form of competition in product markets. The degree of competition a firm faces feeds back into its cash flows and affects the values of the securities it issues. Through its effects on stock prices, product market competition affects the prices of options on equity and...
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We show in a fairly general setting of a buyer and seller with the same preferences trading two related assets so as to share volatility risk that illiquidity and virtually all impediments to trade cannot be priced. This is because the buying and selling counterparties must both be optimizing....
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The empirical tests of traditional structural models of credit risk tend to indicate that such models have been unsuccessful in the modeling of credit spreads. To address these negative findings some authors introduce single-factor stochastic volatility specifications and/or jumps.In the yield...
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I show in a setting of a buyer and seller with the same preferences trading two related assets so as to share volatility risk that illiquidity and virtually all impediments to trade cannot be priced in the absence of excess short-selling costs. This is because the buyer values the asset at the...
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In this paper, we review the most common specifications of discrete-time stochastic volatility (SV) models and illustrate the major principles of corresponding Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) based statistical inference. We provide a hands-on ap proach which is easily implemented in empirical...
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