Intangible assets are absent from traditional measures of value despite their growing importance in firms' capital stocks. We propose a simple improvement to the classic Fama and French (1992, 1993) value factor that incorporates intangibles and accounts for differences in accounting practices...

Banks' ratio of the market value to book value of their equity was close to 1 until the 1990s, then more than doubled during the 1996-2007 period, and fell again to values close to 1 after the 2008 financial crisis. Sarin and Summers (2016) and Chousakos and Gorton (2017) argue that the drop in...

The Chen, Karabarbounis and Neiman (CKN) paper provides interesting global evidence regarding the financing of corporations, and the distribution of aggregate saving between the corporate and household sectors worldwide. To execute their study on global corporate saving, the authors must map the...

Intangible capital which relies on essential human inputs, which we will refer to as “organization capital,” is an increasingly important part of the US and global capital stock. According to Corrado, Hulten, and Sichel (2009), this type of capital is the single largest category of business...

Intangible assets are absent from traditional measures of value, despite their very large (and growing) importance in firms' capital stocks. As a result, the fundamental anchor for value that uses book assets is mismeasured. We propose a simple improvement to the classic value factor (HML^FF)...

Intangible assets are absent from traditional measures of firm value despite their growing importance in firms' capital stocks. We propose a simple improvement to the classic Fama and French (1992, 1993) value factor that incorporates intangibles and addresses differences in accounting practices...