Investment Performance
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A Novel Model of Pricing Errors
An important challenge for investors is understanding why some stocks and investments perform better than others. Traditionally, financial experts have predicted how much return (or profit) an investor can expect based on a company’s size, its earnings, or overall economic conditions. With important implications for investors and other finance professionals ... Read More
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HAMM, Sophia
JUNG, Boochun
LEE, Woo-Jong
Stockpiling Inventory to Hedge against Labor Unions
Corporate managers tend to view labor unions as presenting substantial operational threats, as strikes can disrupt production and lead to stockouts. Therefore, managers make decisions to mitigate such risks, and they use various strategies including providing pessimistic disclosures to preserve their bargaining power against labor unions. One important way ... Read More
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WANG, Zhen
Solving the Investment–Cash Flow Sensitivity Puzzle
Historically, businesses with the largest cash flows and capital reserves were the biggest investors—but this is no longer the case. Economists have long struggled to explain why the relationship between corporate investment and cash flow has weakened and even disappeared in the last few decades. Thanks to the pioneering work of HKUST’s Chu Zhang and co ... Read More
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TATARYNOWICZ, Adam
Marriage of Unequals? Venture Capital Partnerships
The likelihood of venture capital (VC) firms’ forming partnerships with others is strongly influenced by their relative status, say HKUST’s Pavel I. Zhelyazkov and his co-author Adam Tatarynowicz (Singapore Management University). In a timely and incisive study, the authors investigate “status-asymmetric ties” to understand why and how unequal partners ... Read More
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CHOI, Jin Kyung
HANN, Rebecca N.
SUBASI, Musa
Effects of Capital Expenditure Forecasts on Corporate Investment Efficiency
The list of analyst research outputs has been expanding over the past decades, and one prominent analyst research output that has become increasingly important is capital expenditure (capex) forecasts. Yet we know little about the effects of capex forecasts, in particular, whether the information conveyed in capex forecasts is useful to investors, and more ... Read More
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