Focusing on economic distress episodes in an industry, we estimate the effect of conglomeration on resource allocation. Distressed segments have higher sales growth, higher cash flow, and higher expenditure on research and development than single-segment firms. This is especially true for segments with high past performance, for unrated firms, and in competitive industries. Single-segment firms...

The rise of default problems due to poor asset management has an impact on decreasing investor confidence, which affects the value a company. “This observation aims examine how correlation between Cash Ratio and Return Assets Company Value is proxied by Price Book Value, both partially simultaneously in building construction sub-sector companies with focus research for period 2019 2022. This ma...

This paper relies on the characteristics of different earnings components to show that sentiment affects both investors’ judgments of expected cash flows and their risk preferences. As suggested in psychology theories, those two effects of sentiment work against each other in the valuation model-optimistic (pessimistic) cash flow judgments come with high (low) discount rates during high (low) s...

The insurance industry currently discusses to which extend they can integrate an illiquidity premium into their best estimate considerations of insurance liabilities. The present position paper studies this question from an actuarial perspective that is based on marketconsistent valuation. We conclude that mathematical theory does not allow for discounting insurance liabilities with an illiquid...

Tobin’s Q model is one of the economic models for evaluation of companies, proposed by Tobin in 1968 and represents the ratio of the market value of the companies’ shares plus the book value of its debts to the book value of its assets. It seems that one reason for the difference in abilities of the above said companies to produce cash from operating and investing activities. Therefore this res...

The authors develop a conceptua] framework of the marketing-finance interface and discuss its implications for the theory and practice of marketing. The framework proposes that marketing is concerned with the task of developing and managing market-based assets, or assets that arise from the commingling of the firm with entities in its external environment. Examples of market-based assets includ...

the basic model for valuation of firm is the dividend discount model (ddm). when investors buy stocks, they expect to receive two types of cash flow: dividend in the period during which the stock is owned, and the expected sales price at the end of the period. in the extreme example, the investor keeps the stock until the company is liquidated; in such a case, the liquidating dividend becomes t...

Stock Liquidity and Corporate Cash Holdings: Feedback and the Cash as Ammunition Hypothesis We advance the feedback/cash as ammunition hypothesis, namely that firms hold cash to address feedback from stock prices to cash flows and growth opportunities. Firms with more liquid stocks are expected to hold more cash, the opposite of the prediction from a standard information asymmetry perspective o...

Dr. Ming Yang is an energy and environment economist in the IEA, and Dr. William Blyth is a consultant. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or policy of the International Energy Agency or of its individual member countries. As this paper is a Work in Progress, designed to elicit comments and further debate, comments are w...

this paper seeks two goals concurrently, at one hand tries to assay the capability of topsis, vikor and similarity-based approach as multiple attribute decision making approaches in evaluating mutual funds in iran stock exchange, and at the other hand in this evaluation tries to consider and compare three groups of indices including general evaluating indices (age, net value of mutual fund’s as...