characteristics and shun stocks of companies associated with tobacco, alcohol, gambling, firearms, and military or nuclear operations. Analyzing 1992-2007 returns of stocks rated on social responsibility, study found that this tilt gave such investors an advantage over conventional investors. The study also found that shunning resulted in a disadvantage for such investors relative to conventional investors. The advantage from tilting toward stocks of companies with high social responsibility scores is
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edu Abstract Since 2001 the development of the Saudi Arabian capital market has dramatically improved its technical infrastructure. The very nature of these new emerging markets necessitates the need for establishing a benchmark for future equity analysis. It is against this backdrop that this paper investigates the sensitivity of sector risk-return relationships in the Saudi Arabian Stock Market. Using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), the beta and alpha coefficients are calculated and
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CASE SUMMARY NAME: Daniel Hughes DATE: 3-15-13 CASE TITLE: Communications Satellite Corporation (1) BACKGROUND: In January of 1975 the Federal Communications Commission concluded an 11-year investigation of the appropriate economic regulation of the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat). The FCC is looking to decide on many issues, including the determination of a fair rate of return on Comsat’s cost of capital. Comsat had suggested a 12% rate of return for the period of 1964
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faculty teaching finance courses, and above all in the quantity and quality of their combined schol-arly output. The huge body of scholarly research in finance over the last forty years falls naturally into two main streams. And no, I don’t mean “asset pricing” and “cor-porate finance,” but instead a deeper division that cuts across both. The division I have in mind is the more fundamental one between what I will call the business school approach to finance and the economics department approach. Let
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proportions of various assets. Although MPT is widely used in practice in the financial industry and several of its creators won a Nobel memorial prize for the theory,[1] in recent years the basic assumptions of MPT have been widely challenged by fields such as behavioral economics. MPT is a mathematical formulation of the concept of diversification in investing, with the aim of selecting a collection of investment assets that has collectively lower risk than any individual asset. That this is possible
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A reformulated asset pricing model based on contrarian strategies Zhongzhi (Lawrence) He Faculty of Business, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada, and Reformulated asset pricing model 185 Lawrence Kryzanowski John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Abstract Purpose – Researchers have proposed characteristics-based pricing models as an alternative to risk-based pricing models. While supported empirically, these characteristic-based models lack theoretical
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On the Use of the CAPM in Public Utility Rate Cases: Comment Author(s): Dennis E. Peseau and Thomas M. Zepp Reviewed work(s): Source: Financial Management, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 52-56 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Financial Management Association International Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3665011 . Accessed: 08/02/2013 07:25 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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investors’ required returns. The case gives internal rates of return (IRR) for the 7E7 project under base-case and alternative forecasts. The students must estimate a weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) for Boeing’s commercial-aircraft business segment in order to evaluate the IRRs. As a result of that analysis, the students identify the key value drivers and distinguish, on a qualitative basis, the key gambles that Boeing is making. The general objective of this case is to exercise students’
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reserved. JEL classification: G14; G12 Keywords: Market efficiency; Behavioral finance 1. Introduction Event studies, introduced by Fama et al. (1969), produce useful evidence on how stock prices respond to information. Many studies focus on returns in a short window (a few days) around a cleanly dated event. An advantage of this approach is that because daily expected returns are close to zero, the model for expected returns does not have a big effect on inferences about abnormal returns. * Corresponding
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methods have not been able to, such as the option to defer, abandon, expand or default a project. These options can be exercised when new information arrives and therefore provide an opportunity to put a floor on project loss. Use of binomial option pricing model gives managers a whole range of possibilities in analyzing the flexibility and to value the uncertainty in their investments. In this thesis the disadvantages of net present value and decision
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