We present comprehensive evidence in support of giving liquidity equal standing to size, value/growth, and momentum as investment styles, as defined by Sharpe (1992). First, we show that financial market liquidity, as identified by stock turnover, is an economically significant indicator of...

The “market” is too complex to model deterministically, and as a result it is impossible to deterministically and accurately price assets within the market. Nevertheless, the vast majority of financial asset pricing models, such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), are employed as...

Maintaining a competitive edge requires a firm to replace deteriorating business lines with new projects. Accordingly, part of a firm's value resides in its ability to exploit new opportunities. This article incorporates adaptation into Ohlson's residual income valuation framework and obtains a...

The present value discount rate is about the investor, the expected market rate of return on his best alternative asset (BAA), his opportunity cost of buying a subject asset (not the subject's rate of return, subject owner's/seller's cost of capital, nor the required rate of return on an...

A substantive distinction between the Fair Market Value Standard's (FMVS) Hypothetical Marketplace and the real-world marketplace, for inactively-traded assets, must exist, else the court could calculate real-world market value instead of the more onerous abstract, hypothetical Fair Market Value...

VaR_Delta-Normal is derived from a Put option, named PVaR_Delta-Normal and Expected_Shortfall, PSF_Delta-Normal – the latter a coherent measure – guaranteeing VaR can never be larger than the fund value. Current standard VaR_Delta-Normal uses covariances calculated from the entire...

We formulate one methodology to put a value or price on knowledge using well accepted techniques from finance. We provide justifications for these finance principles based on the limitations of the physical world we live in. We start with the intuition for our method to value knowledge and then...

This paper applies the dichotomous theory of choice by Zou (2000a) to the analysis of investment strategies and security markets. Issues concerning individual optimality, (approximate) arbitrage, capital market equilibrium, and Pareto efficiency are studied under various market conditions. <BR>...

We evaluate biodiversity in a real options framework, when the resources in use are substitutable. We examine optimal conservation decisions given that a biodiversity loss is irreversible and that future use values are uncertain. While species substitutability is generally believed to reduce the...

This paper applies the dichotomous theory of choice by Zou (2000a) tothe analysis of investmentstrategies and security markets. Issues concerning individualoptimality, (approximate) arbitrage,capital market equilibrium, and Pareto efficiency are studied undervarious market conditions. Among the...