We use Tobin's q model to investigate the impact of food manufacturers' advertising as an investment in intangible capital. Intangible capital value created by advertising relates to expected growth and economic rents derived from brand equity. We study the relations between advertising and firm...

Direct foreign investment (DFI) allows a multinational corporation (MNC) to generate and appropriate extra-normal profits from its unique assets in a foreign market. China has become increasingly attractive for foreign investment over the past 20 years. This entails political risk, but MNCs can...

This paper assesses the agricultural equipment industry through the perspective of the three leading firms in the United States. It reviews the salient events of the 1990s and relates the business environment to the firmsÂ’ financial performance. It then assesses the factors likely to impact...

Evolving food preferences and business cycles have had differential impacts on the expected performance, risk, and cost of capital among post farm gate food industries. Expected returns to invested capital in 10 food manufacturing and four distribution industries are evaluated with respect to...

The latter 1990s witnessed rapid growth among the largest retail food chain companies, much of it through acquisitions. An explanatory motive is that grocery chains could achieve greater scale economies and operating efficiencies, and increase their bargaining power with packaged food...

This paper examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty and its components on firm-level investment. It is found that economic policy uncertainty in interaction with firm-level uncertainty depresses firms’ investment decisions. When firms are in doubt about costs of doing business due to...

Inflation uncertainty is shown to have highly significant negative correlations with real activities if the uncertainty is measured by a state-dependent conditional variance model. The results are consistent with those obtained from survey data and cross-country data.

This paper advances a hypothesis that the negative correlation between ex post real returns and unexpected inflation is induced by the negative correlation between ex post real returns and the uncertainty premium. The hypothesis is based on an uncertainty-adjusted present value model in which...