Investment Decision Analysis using NPV and or the Mean-Variance Model has become the primary method of investment evaluation. However, these approaches are deeply flawed and are very sensitive to the time horizon, the signs of the periodic cash flows, and discount rates that exceed 100% or are...

Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) and American Depository Receipts (ADRs) have remained mainstays of International Finance, and enable foreign companies (and especially Emerging Markets companies) to access larger and or more liquid capital markets mainly in larger and more-developed countries...

This article: i) explains some drivers of both business value and real estate value of commercial retail real estate portfolios; ii) illustrates some principal-agent problems that arise from investment and control of operating companies by hedge funds and private equity funds

Multiple Listing Systems (MLS), Real Estate Website (REW) Laws, and Rent-Control and Rent-Stabilization statutes (RCRS) are un-constitutional and could have affected the transmission of monetary policy and fiscal policies, and the rapid changes in housing prices and housing demand which occurred...

Structural Change is the basis for many decisions such as government fiscal and monetary policies, government interventions, corporate-expenditure decisions, corporate strategic decisions, portfolio management decisions in finance; household allocation decisions, etc.. Structural change in...

Having excessive numbers of shares outstanding is either common or prevalent among listed companies in emerging markets and especially in Central/Eastern European, African and Asian stock markets (i.e. where such companies usually have between two-times and twelve-times the average numbers of...