This paper analyses the predictability of a hypothetical market with freely negotiated prices on which exists a censoring of one-period returns which are in excess of an arbitrary level ('floor' and 'ceiling'). It is shown that the expected value of returns (adjusted for drift) conditional on...

Using a sample of 781 U.K. firms over the period 2000–2008 we study the relationship between remuneration dispersion at executive board level and firm performance. We find that this relationship is sensitive to nationality composition of the executive boards. In contrast with findings on...

This paper analyses the regulatory attitudes to asset valuation in the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on the US experience from <italic>Smith v Ames 169 US 466 (1898)</italic> to <italic>Federal Power Commission v Hope Natural Gas 320 US 591 (</italic><italic>1944</italic>) and on the experience in the UK in last two decades of the...