In times of uncertainty and crisis the performance measurement instruments should be reanalyzed. Thus, alongside the classic indicators of performance, in business financial analysis can be used modern indicators which offer a greater flexibility and efficiency. Such a measurement indicator for...

We study forwards and European call options, which are written on a non-storable renewable resource. Examples of such derivatives in form of futures on fresh catch of wild salmon for the US and the recently created Fish Pool market in Norway, where futures on a composite of wild catch and farmed...

We consider Merton's version of the Solow model Merton (1975), where capital per labor is assumed to follow the diffusion process: dk(t)=[sf(k(t))-(n lambda-sigma2)k(t)]dt sigmak(t)dW(t), with constant per capital savings rate s. Merton defined a golden rule in this context as one for which...

Is shareholder interest in corporate social responsibility driven by pecuniary motives (abnormal rates of return) or non-pecuniary ones (willingness to sacrifice returns to address various firm externalities)? To answer this question, we categorize the literature into seven tests: (1) costs of...

We use a survey approach to investigate how managers in a frontier market apply financing and dividend decision techniques in practice. 15 firm characteristics were grouped into paired subgroups for a two-sample t-test analysis that generated statistical differences, economic significance levels...

We show that the sensitivity of corporate investment to stock price is higher for firms cross-listed in the U.S. than for firms that never cross-list. This difference is strong, does not exist prior to the cross-listing date, and does not vanish over time after this date. Moreover, the impact of...

Este trabajo examina el efecto de la liquidez sobre las principales decisiones financieras en la empresa. Los resultados muestran c¢mo la asimetr¡a de informaci¢n entre los diferentes agentes econ¢micos afectan a la acumulaci¢n de cash y ‚sta, a su vez, influye sobre el valor de las...

We analyze capital allocation in a conglomerate where divisional managers with uncertain abilities compete for promotion to CEO. A manager can sometimes gain by unobservably adding variance to divisional performance. Capital rationing can limit this distortion, increase productive efficiency,...

The degree to which an operating exposure should be hedged financially is affected by the introduction of a valuable abandonment option. The introduction of an abandonment option does not lead to a simple reduction of the need for a financial hedging. Rather the reduction of the need for...