This paper recognizes two main factors that cause the capital requirement to affect the weighted average cost of capital and hence the investment behavior ofbanks: underpriced debt resulting from the deposit insurance and information asymmetry between managers and the stock market. For a bank enjoying a low cost of debt (deposits), an increased proportion of equity financing raises the weighted...

The announcement of European Union enlargement coincided with a dramatic rise in stock prices in accession countries. This paper investigates the hypothesis that the rise in stock prices was the result of the integration of accession countries into the world market, and the subsequent repricing of systematic risk. The results show that firm-specific stock price changes are not related to firmsp...

One of the greatest difficulties facing a stock trader or investment manager is the stock selection process. In this process, the investor is faced with a large number of competing investments, and a fixed amount of capital. The goal is to spread the available capital across a reduced subset of the competing investments, with the aim of increasing the return. Typically, the investor relies on o...

Popular investment advice recommends that the stock/bond and stock/wealth ratios should rise with investor risk tolerance and investment horizon respectively, prescriptions that are difficult to reconcile with standard models of portfolio choice. Canner et al (1997) point out that the first piece of advice can potentially be explained by human capital considerations, but only by exacerbating th...

In science-based industries, world-class scientists drive the most successful firms. These scientists are more likely to follow high-stakes, high-returns R&D strategies instead of more predictable incremental strategies. We develop an options pricing model in which the probability of stock-price jumps increases with knowledge capital. GMM estimates show the probability of stock-price jumps incr...

A model of the economic effects of civil war and the post-war period is developed. A key feature is the adjustment of the capital stock through capital flight. Post-war this flight can either be reversed or continue, depending partly upon how far the capital stock has adjusted to the war. The model is tested on data for all civil wars since 1960. After long civil wars the economy recovers rapid...

Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The author wishes to thank Paul Bauer, William Fox, and Joe Stone for helpful comments and discussions and Douglas Dalenberg and Chul Soo Park for research assistance. Michael Fogarty and Gaspar Garofalo provided the private capital stock series. Estimation of the public capital stock series...

According to the nature of their activities, banks are exposed to various types of risks. Hence, risk management is at the heart of financial institutions management. In this study, we intend to summarize the information content of bank financial statements on diverse risks faced by banks and then determine how stock markets react to bank's risk management behavior. The methodology used in this...

This paper extends Lucas (1978) to a production economy with two capital goods. It is an RBC model in which each unit of investment requires a new idea, an “option”. When options are scarce, new capital is harder to put in place and the value of old capital rises. Thus the stock market and Tobin’s Q are negative indexes of intangibles. During a boom, Q rises gradually, as options are used up. B...

It is often said that poor countries are poor because they are deficient in what economists call capital stock: i.e. they lack the tangible infrastructures that enable modern developed societies to function and to create more wealth-----roads, communications systems, schools, machines, and factories. But capital stock does not grow wild. Its appearance at a particular time and place is the resu...