Cost-of-capital assessments with factor models require quantitative forward- looking estimates. We recommend estimating Vasicek-shrunk betas with one to four years of daily stock returns, and then — because the underlying betas are themselves time-varying — shrinking betas a second time (and...

Our study examines the determinants and consequences of reverse factoring. Despite the increasing popularity of reverse factoring, neither US GAAP nor IFRS offers any guidance for the financial reporting of obligations owed under reverse factoring. Using a sample of UK firms from 2018 to 2020,...

We propose that innovative originality (InnOrig) is a valuable organizational resource, and that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity, firms with greater InnOrig are undervalued. We find that firms' InnOrig strongly predicts higher, more persistent, and less volatile...

These are the slides for the paper “Innovative Originality, Profitability, And Stock Returns.” The abstract of this paper is the following: We propose that innovative originality is a valuable organizational resource and that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity,...

We propose that innovative originality is a valuable organizational resource, and that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity, greater innovative originality may be undervalued. We find that firms' innovative originality strongly predicts higher, more persistent, and...

Behavioral theories suggest that investor misperceptions and market mispricing will be correlated across firms. We use equity and debt financing to identify common misvaluation across firms. A zero-investment portfolio (UMO, Undervalued Minus Overvalued) built from repurchase and new issue firms...