The Stock Market and Corporate Investment: A Test of Catering Theory Christopher Polk London School of Economics Paola Sapienza Northwestern University‚ CEPR‚ and NBER We test a catering theory describing how stock market mispricing might influence individual firms’ investment decisions. We use discretionary accruals as our proxy for mispricing. We find a positive relation between abnormal investment and discretionary accruals; that abnormal investment is more sensitive to discretionary accruals
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is documented as the worst stock market crash in history. There are several factors which affect the stock market crash in 1987. However‚ the popular explanation for the crash is the selling of program trader‚ portfolio insurance and the great storm of 1987. Program trading is the use of computers in stock market to engage in arbitrage and portfolio insurance strategies. Through the 1970s and early 1980s‚ computers were becoming more important. As a result‚ the market was being controlled more
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possibly go wrong. Well‚ in October 1929‚ the Stock Market Crash occurred. Many wonder what it was like before the crash‚ the effects of the crash‚ and what caused the crash. It was a difficult time for America and it took several years for recovery. Before the crash‚ during the 1920’s‚ the stock market grew quickly. People thought we were done with poverty and were worry free. After President Hoover became president‚ everyone was
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Stock Market Crash When the Stock market crashed in 1929 it affected people’s lives worldwide . After World War 1 ended it had sent every major European country near bankruptcy in 1918. People thought the United States’s future faced limited opportunity. It was the longest and darkest economic depression in American history. Then signs of recovery began to show in the early 1930s. The American economy lost more than $30 billion on October 24‚ 1929 also known as Black Tuesday. All major
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Value Stock vs. Growth Stock September 14‚ 2013 Growth and value are styles of investing in stocks (Emerald‚ 2013). Analysts commonly classify companies with low market-to-book ratios as value stocks‚ and firms with high market-to-book ratios as growth stocks (Berk & DeMarzo‚ 2011). Neither approach is certain to give appreciation in stock market value; both carry the possibility of risk. The return
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Bruno Bettelheim‚ author of The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales‚ explains that children’s minds work differently than an adults mind. He argues that children are searching for moral guidelines in order to have a foundation to cope with life’s inevitable problems. He believes that fairy tales‚ rather other texts‚ supplies children with that foundation. He also believes that adults should read The Grimm’s version of stories to their young children as a way teaching them
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Abstract: The project is done to find out the impact of stock split on the stock market. In our project‚ we have made use of event study methodology to assess the accuracy of stock price reaction of 39 public listed Indian companies in National Stock Exchange (BSE) in the year 2006 and onwards. The abnormal returns (actual returns-returns from regression line) results were taken for 20 days before and after the announcement date to test whether the result is significant or not (Level of significance=5%)
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260 loss aversion and anchoring‚ overconfidence. Buy sell policy : -10% 4) calculate data technical analysis chapter 11 &6 5) summary‚ what I have learned through Stock Trak Market efficiency‚ beat the market‚ random walk and stock price from chapter 7 ‚ page 223. Diversification page 265‚ page 373 in chapter11 Stock Trak Project Looking back the investment scenario‚ I notice my client who is a 35-year-old‚ unmarried childless male with $150‚000 income and $50000 savings per year
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STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY IN INDIA: A CASE OF SELECT SCRIPTS Puja Padhi* Abstract An attempt has been made in this paper to explain the stock market volatility at the individual script level and at the aggregate indices level. The empirical analysis has been done by using Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model (ARCH)‚ Generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model and ARCH in Mean model and it is based on daily data for the time period from January
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Co. If you look at the performance of various stock markets around the world it can be best described as a roller-coaster ride. The following is the chart for our KLCI as from December 2012. Notice how volatile is the price in the chart. It is of common belief that stock prices movements are as a result of changes in economic fundamentals such as interest rates‚ GDP growth‚ consumer confidence and corporate earnings. The movement of the market index like our FBMKLCI is a result from the individual
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