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misreporting, even if doing so is costless. This helps explain why exaggeration is ubiquitous during allocation decisions: money …
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two years at a time and use generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) do not do this. We present an alternative …
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This paper proposes a model aiming at decomposing the Net Final Value of a project under certainty. It makes use of a systemic outlook: the investor's net worth is regarded as a dynamic system whose structure changes over time. On this basis, a profitability index is presented, here named...
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In this paper, we empirically examine the capital budgeting process of a large multi-divisional firm and the implications of the dynamics that underlie this process. Although investment decisions are one of the most important decisions made by firms, relatively little is known about the capital...
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We characterize the optimal dynamic mechanism for capital budgeting and managerial compensation. The division manager privately observes the project productivity at each point in time as well as an initial signal that governs the productivity evolution. We show that the optimal allocation can be...
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In modern businesses, firms face new challenges of managerial retention in capital budgeting process. We consider a model in which a manager privately observes the capital productivity of a project and has access to multiple outside financing options. We show that if the manager can obtain...
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substitutional and a complementary relationship between accounting information and reputation, an informal institution. Empirical … the legal environment is far from perfect, the complementary relationship between reputation and accounting information is … the usefulness of accounting information in debt contracts. Besides the aggregate effect, this paper also provides …
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