Risk management is an important aspect of financial research because correlations among financial data are essential in evaluating portfolio risk. Among various correlations, spatiotemporal correlations involve economic entity attributes and are interrelated in space and time. Such correlations...

The paper investigates how the availability heuristic of individual stocks affects equity returns, where the availability heuristic is measured by the irrational signal in the fractal dimension. Our evidence support that the availability heuristic can positively predict the short-term expected...

New economy companies often use convertible and redeemable preferred shares with equity and debt characteristics as financing tools to reduce risk during their early stages of growth. According to relevant accounting standards, such preferred shares should be classified as financial liabilities...

We use a case study to illustrate how different acquisition methods can result in different amounts of goodwill recognised on financial statements in China. China Merchants Bank adopted a two-step acquisition method: first, it acquired 53% of the shares of Hong Kong's Wing Lung Bank to gain...

This study focuses on the decreasing relevance of financial information associated with current financial reporting standards for intangible assets. We summarize and compare three approaches to improving financial reporting standards for internally generated intangibles-the recognition approach,...

We use a case study to illustrate how different acquisition methods can result in different amounts of goodwill recognized on financial statements in China. China Merchants Bank adopted a two-step acquisition method: first, it acquired 53% of the shares of Hong Kong’s Wing Lung Bank to gain...

A principal has n homogeneous objects to allocate to I n agents. The principal can allocate at most one good to an agent and each agent values the good. Agents have private information about the principal's payoff of allocating the goods. There are no monetary transfers but the principal can...

Perold (2007) shows that, given a diffuse prior that is being updated in light of a noisy market price, the posterior distribution says that value-weighting and equal-weighting one's portfolio makes no difference. We argue that the diffuse prior is hard to reconcile with reality and that a...