Employing a basic model of an economy comprising both the real and financial sectors, I show that the primitive risk measure for real investment decisions is earnings beta — defined as the (normalized) covariance between firm profitability (return on investment) and the aggregate profitability...

Chapter 1 Value Concept and Accounting Measures of Value Generation: The Residual Income Model -- Chapter 2 Mapping Accounting Data to Value via Linear Information Dynamics: the Early Approach -- Chapter 3 Capital Following Profitability: Why the Residual Income Dynamic is Nonlinear -- Chapter 4...

This study examines the usefulness of analysts’ book value forecasts and the economic factors driving analysts’ issuance of these forecasts. We first establish that analysts’ book value forecasts are superior to forecasts that are mechanically imputed from analysts’ own earnings...

We examine how information disclosures from private firms affect analysts’ public firm earnings forecasts. On one hand, private firm disclosures allow analysts to better understand industry-wide business conditions, enabling them to forecast the peer public firm earnings more accurately. On...

We investigate how the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by publicly listed firms in the European Union affects peer private firms. We find that private firms’ capital investment decreases significantly after the IFRS mandate, relative to public firms....