The purpose of this article is to empirically examine the comparative accuracy of income oriented (Free cash flow to equity, Residual income model) and market oriented (Price to earnings multiple, Price to book value multiple and Price to sales multiple) valuation models for the Indian...

Deteriorated water mains fail frequently causing service disruption and other inconvenience to the customers. Therefore, the utilities must conduct repair, rehabilitation and/or replacement in a timely manner to satisfy the needs of the customers. To succeed in this process the utilities must...

This paper suggests using a unit t-value criterion in imposing restrictions on lags to formulate a subset vector autoregressive (VAR) model for the purpose of point forecasts. Among any other alternative models nested to the initial VAR model, this less restrictive modeling strategy produces the...

Purpose – Being a developing nation with huge opportunity of growth prospects the assessment of valuation models becomes important to have a more realistic value estimate. The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the comparative accuracy and explanatory performance of discounted...

In this paper, we detail the main simulation methods used in practice to measure one-year reserve risk, and describe the bootstrap method providing an empirical distribution of the Claims Development Result (CDR) whose variance is identical to the closed-form expression of the prediction error...

The purpose of this article is to empirically examine the comparative accuracy of income oriented (Free cash flow to equity, Residual income model) and market oriented (Price to earnings multiple, Price to book value multiple and Price to sales multiple) valuation models for the Indian...