This study aims to identify & analyze the impact of tax planning, dividend policy & corporate ownership on the business cost of manufacturing companies in the food and beverage sub-sector traded on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for 2017-2020. The data collection uses secondary data from...

The policy challenge. Citizens and politicians in Western democracies have increasingly become aware of the importance of human rights, civil liberties, social rights, and sustainability issues as well as the different adherence to basic rights (such as equal treatment) all over the world. This...

With the wave of M&A, total amount of goodwill balances has been accumulated to a enormous number in Chinese capital market. Accounting Standards is controversial about high discretion in the goodwill subsequent measurements. This study examines whether goodwill book value is consistent with...

We examine whether hedge fund activists correct inefficient R&D investment and create long-term value at their targets. Using an endogenous growth model to estimate the efficient level of R&D investment, we find firms targeted by activists are overinvesting in R&D on average, with both the...

This paper examines the association between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, firm value and foreign ownership for Korean firms. In Korea, firms that emit GHG more than a given threshold have been mandated to disclose the levels of GHG emissions since 2011. We find that firms bound to disclose GHG...

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between the distribution of ownership and firm value in the presence of multiple blockholders. In recent years, the topic has attracted the attention of many scholars. Yet, the empirical evidence on the relationship between the distribution of ownership...

Does protecting employment of older workers affect the value of a firm? We answer this question by exploiting a labor-market reform in 2012 in Japan, which mandated firms to continue employment of their existing regular workers, regardless of their abilities, beyond the statutory retirement age...

This thesis develops a methodology for venture capital valuation based on two option pricing approaches: "options building blocks" and Monte Carlo simulation. To make this thesis more realistic, we have incorporated provisions related to IPOs, such as IPO return guarantees and vetoes over...

We investigate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and firm value effects of more than 7,000 shareholder proposals submitted between 2006–2020. Using propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences setting, the results indicate that firms that receive an ESG- or...

The Growth Value Model (GVM) proposed theoretical closed form formulas consisting of Return on Equity (ROE) and the Price-to-Book value ratio (P/B) for fair stock prices and expected rates of return. Although regression analysis can be employed to verify these theoretical closed form formulas,...

There is increasingly an imperative for investors to incorporate human rights due diligence into their investment decision-making processes, driven both by regulatory and voluntary initiatives. However, tools for investors to assess the human rights practices of their investment universe or...

This paper examines the effects of horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the value of industry rivals. Using firm-level data from 45 countries during the period 1990–2020, I find that the average stock price reactions of industry rivals around deal announcements are significantly...

As an alternative, the authors propose a real options approach to managing a business unit portfolio as a better framework for conducting the goodwill impairment test. A real options approach to testing goodwill for impairment - as opposed to the standard fair value assessment based on DCF...

We study whether firms value court enforceability of their workers’ noncompete agreements (NCAs), leveraging a 2020 Washington law that made NCAs unenforceable for workers earning less than a threshold of $100k per year (indexed to inflation), covering approximately 79% of Washing-ton workers....

This paper innovatively establishes the interrelationship between type I agency costs (conflicts between managers and shareholders) and type II agency costs (conflicts between controlling and minority shareholders). We further analyze the impact of agency cost interactions on the volatility of...

Despite blockchain's potential to transform corporations by providing new ways of organizing business processes and handling information, extant research pays inadequate attention to how and under what conditions blockchain technology provides additional financial value for shareholders. Drawing...

This study focused on increasing firm value through CSR- and profitability-moderated investment decisions in emerging markets. A panel data analysis method was used for this study with a total of 215 observations of non-financial sector companies on the Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2018 to...

Equity investors value CEO social capital when pricing firm equity. When CEO social capital is high, the value relevance of the book value of equity declines, whereas the value relevance of earnings measures increases. Results are stronger for firms in high-tech industries where information...

This paper explores whether Chinese capital providers can benefit from the integrated reporting (IR) approach. Using a sample of 7168 observations selected from 1169 firms listed in China between 2006 and 2019, we examine the relation between the integration level of ESG disclosures and firm...

This paper explores the effect of financial instruments for exchange rate hedging on a firm's value in the presence of non-operating profit or loss from foreign exchange transactions. This study uses Tobin's Q ratio as a proxy for firm value and a two-step generalized method of moments (GMM)...

Behavioral theories suggest that overconfident investors overestimate the quality of their information and underestimate risk. They have a high demand for risky assets and require a lower risk premium, causing asset prices to rise and leading to overvaluation. We investigate how overconfidence...

In this paper, we revisit a frequently employed simplification within the WACC approach that company cost of capital kV is supposed to be invariant to the debt ratio and therefore equal to the unlevered cost kU . Even though we know from Miles and Ezzell (1980) that kV formally differs from kU ,...

The objective of our paper is to analyze, how valuation practice deals with inflation especially for the terminal value, and how company value is influenced by assumptions set by practitioners. For that reason, we examine how vulnerable companies could be regarding struggles to pass on...