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significant improvement in operating performance relative to nonadopters. <i>This paper was accepted by Brad Barber, finance.</i> …
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expectations, and that management earnings guidance helps resolve sentiment-driven overvaluation. Using previously identified firm … the three-day window around the issuance of management earnings guidance. Comparisons of guidance months to nonguidance …
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We investigate the long-standing puzzle on the underpricings of convertible bonds. We hypothesize that the observed underpricing is induced by the possibility that a convertible bond might renegotiate on some of its covenants, e.g., an imbedded put option in financial difficulties. Consistent...
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Banking has been a fertile area for management science applications, as is evident from the review provided in this … paper. The relevant management science models are discussed in terms of the areas of bank management for which they were … intended. Under dynamic balance sheet management (i.e., internal bank financial planning) we consider forecasting techniques …
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Once they have observed information, hindsight-biased agents fail to remember how ignorant they were initially; "they knew it all along." We formulate a theoretical model of this bias, providing a foundation for empirical measures and implying that hindsight-biased agents learning about...
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The problem of minimizing net interest cost (NIC) on new issues of tax-exempt debt securities is formulated as an integer linear programming problem. The formulation (for one variant) is a p-median problem with one additional constraint. Other variants are also closely related to the p-median...
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impact of the program. This paper was accepted by Wei Xiong, finance. …
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Linear programming is applied to measurement of whole life insurance to obtain a functional relationship between interest adjusted cost of insurance protection and rate of return on policy equity. For comparative purposes, policy differences related to premium rates, dividends and cash-values...
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A multiple-objective decision model to structure tax-exempt serial revenue bonds is presented in this paper. Based on goals dealing with true interest cost, marketability, debt coverage, production, and level debt, we define a goal programming model to generate a maturity schedule and coupon...
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This paper describes a practical algorithm for large-scale mean-variance portfolio optimization. The emphasis is on developing an efficient computational approach applicable to the broad range of portfolio models employed by the investment community. What distinguishes these from the "usual"...
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