This article regresses the market value of equity on pre-depreciation income and on depreciation expense for capital-intensive firms, referring to the coefficients from our model as valuation weights. The valuation weight on depreciation expense versus the weight on pre-depreciation income are...

This paper studies the asset pricing implications of mining pools' concentration. We incorporate two features specific to cryptocurrencies into a traditional dynamic asset pricing model. First, we introduce the technological arms race between mining pools, and second, the interdependency between...

Blockchain technology has a significant impact in multiple fields. Bitcoin was the first of its applications to rise to widespread attention. Due to its source code being publicly available (open source), it was followed quickly by a number of other cryptocurrencies as developers caught on to...

This paper addresses the growing concern of shock propagation in crypto asset markets. The integration of conventional Financial institutions (CeFi) and decentralized Financial protocols (DeFi) has introduced a set of complexities that are not adequately accounted for in current models. We build...

Knowledge is central to managing an organization, but its presence in employees is difficult to measure directly. We hypothesize that external communication patterns reveal the location of knowledge within the management team. Using a large database of firm conference call transcripts, we find...

Because corporate diversification and organization coevolve, diversification discounts, which are widely reported in the literature, can be caused by organizational structure, rather than by the industrial scope of the firm. The present paper examines this possibility based on a large sample of...

This study investigates the interdependencies between debt capital and dividend policy as complementary factors influencing firm value among corporations listed on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI). Using Tobin's Q as a firm value metric and employing robust econometric techniques...

Forecasting based pricing of Weather Derivatives (WDs) is a new approach in valuation of contingent claims on nontradable underlyings. Standard techniques are based on historical weather data. Forward-looking information such as meteorological forecasts or the implied market price of risk (MPR)...