This paper derives necessary and sufficient conditions for the conformity of properly anticipated stock prices to a fair-return process in the framework of a discounted-dividend valuation model when the appropriate fair-return to any given future time period is itself a random variable.

Daily cash forecasting generally requires some method to reflect day-of-month and day-of-week effects. It requires the resolution of multiple seasonals, a problem given scant treatment in the econometrics literature. This paper first presents <italic>multiplticative</italic> and <italic>mixed-effects</italic> specifications of...

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The hypothesis that firms simultaneously determine their research and development, investment, dividend, and new debt policies generally is substantiated in the financial literature. The strategic planning model advocated in this study offers an alternative to the generally accepted goals of...