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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Value effects"”.
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The value effects of capital structure : essays on leverage and its impact on stock returns</
… on capital structure where they argue that firm value is independent of financing decisions, limited work has been undertaken on leverage as an independent variable or a risk factor in explaining stock returns. On the other hand, theoretical finance has always regarded debt as one of the …
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An Investigation of Overreaction via Implied Volatility and a Comparison between Tracking Stocks and Carve-Outs as a Restructuring Choice
… compares the degree of overreaction between value stocks and growth stocks using the implied volatility from option prices. Applying Stein's (1989) mean reversion model and Heynen, Kemna, and Vorst's (1994) GARCH and EGARCH methods, I compare the theoretical and empirical measures of reaction …
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Sources of Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
This PhD thesis investigates sources of value in mergers and acquisitions, using a discounted cash-flow valuation method to develop a model that explains sources of economic gains. The model identifies three major sources of value in mergers, each of which can reduce or contribute to the combined …
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Connecting through smartphones: Cognitive, social, emotional motivations, and the experience of value perceptions
… This study also investigated the “experience of value perceptions” (i.e., perceived social, hedonic, and utilitarian values) that emerged concurrently with smartphone use. Moreover, consumption value theory was employed to understand the perceived values of smartphone users. Ultimately, a …
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Firm-specific attributes and the cross-section of JSE securities exchange returns
… both the CAPM and a two factor APT model these effects are found to persist. Multivariate testing suggests a two factor model with the size and price-to-earnings attributes as explanatory variables. When the cross-sectional tests are compared across the broad industry sectors of the JSE, value …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… is that uncertainty may raise firms’ option value of adopting a “wait and see” approach compared to posting vacancies. This mechanism is intuitively appealing, influential in the literature, and commonly viewed as having been formalized in the canonical search-and-matching model. Our first …