Les changements de méthodes comptables et les principales latitudes discrétionnaires dont bénéficient les dirigeants visent à biaiser la présentation des états financiers. En vertu des apports de l'efficience des marchés de capitaux et de la théorie de la rationalité, les investisseurs...

There exists today an unanswered question as to whether, and the degree to which, borrower characteristics impact the choice between fixed and adjustable rate mortgages. In this paper, we apply a neural network analysis to supply evidence that answers this question. We find evidence that the...

With the exception of anecdotal information, little is known about the specific effects on the value of a house because its ownership is restricted to people older than a certain age. This article provides an empirically-derived assessment of the impact on the selling price of single-family...

Empirical studies using multiple regression find the value of a residential property declines with its age. Because these results confirm the fact of physical deterioration of a house over time, little attention is paid to the statistical technique's inherent shortcomings. Accordingly, this...

The importance of location is well known in the literature on real estate valuation. Our study extends this body of literature by being first to examine empirically the effect on the selling price of single-family residential properties when they abut a golf course. We determine the incremental...

When the source of external capital for Continental European firms is examined, debt markets have historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets, and firms rely much more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. In this environment banks have...