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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INTRODUCTION: ~ Capital market is the market for leading and borrowing of medium and long term funds. ~ The demand for long-term funds comes from industry‚ trade‚ agriculture and government (central and state). ~ The supply for funds comes from individual savers‚ corporate savings‚ banks‚ insurance companies‚ specialized financial institutions and government. *SIGNIFICANCE: ~ A sound and efficient capital market is extremely vital for the economic development of a nation. ~ So‚ the significance
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The 1929 stock market crash affected mainly people in Canada and the US when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and Stocks lost 13% of their value‚ and in 1932 and 1933 they went‚ down about 80% from their highest value. So whoever invested in stocks lost all their money‚ and it was considered the beginning of the Great Depression. By the end of the stock market crash‚ $16 billion had been lost from New York stocks. In addition‚ many banks had invested their deposits
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 2008 CAUSED THE GREAT RECESSION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE Roger Farmer Working Paper 17479 http://www.nber.org/papers/w17479 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 October 2011 This paper was prepared as a Plenary Address to the 17th International Conference in Economics and Finance‚ held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco‚ June 29th-July 1st 2011. I would like to thank the Society for Computational
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Research Bulletin Volume 3‚ Number 1‚ 2007 Bond Market Developments in Emerging Markets: Propsects and Challenges for Pakistan Ahmed M. Khalid• This paper investigates the development of bond market in emerging economies with a focus on Pakistan. The main objective of this paper is to explore the reasons for a slow development of bond market in emerging economies. To achieve this objective‚ we first provide a comprehensive survey of the bond market developments in a sample of Asian countries. For
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Abstract The terms “securities market” in Viet Nam is quite strange to the public while in many countries in the world‚ it have been developing dynamically. The securities market has its own attraction because of its important role to a national economy and interest for investors. Investing and growing securities market is one of the best ways to enrich our economy and create many opportunities for us. It can be only flourished if there are lots of investors with enough knowledge about securities
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R&D • Max out the MTBF • Position the directly where the market wants it (using the perceptual map) • Try to make it come out the same year. If not‚ position it correctly‚ complete all decisions‚ then come back and see where dates fall. It’s not terrible if it does not come out within the year‚ you just lose selling time Marketing • Price the products as high as you want. Most likely the market will accept it. For the promo and sales budgets‚ allocate more money to
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Bianca Broussard 3/3/16 The Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression The Great Depression of the 1930’s was a long-lasting economic crisis as well as a worldwide phenomenon. The United States had experienced several recessions on and off since the start of the Industrial Revolution‚ but nothing as extreme or long-lasting as the Great Depression. So what exactly caused this harrowing time in American History? Many mistakenly believe that ‘Black Tuesday’ or The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was ultimately
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Definition: The market where transactions of money and financial assets are accomplished for short time is called money market. On the other end‚ capital market is meant that market where transactions of money and financial assets are occurred for a long period. * Institutions: Important institutions operating in the’ money market are central banks‚ commercial banks‚ acceptance houses‚ non bank financial institutions‚ bill brokers. Important institutions of the capital market are stock exchanges‚
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factors like GDP and earnings reports‚ political factors like government policies and political unrest‚ commodity prices like price of crude oil and gold‚ social issues like war and terrorism‚ acts of God such as earth quakes and flood may cause the market to change direction or speed up or slow down its momentum. Most common of them are listed below. Inflation‚ Interest rates & Earnings High Speculative activity Demand and supply Oil/Energy Prices ‚War/terrorism ‚ Crime/fraud Serious domestic
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