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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453177703321

Titolo

Advances in quantitative analysis of finance and accounting . Volume 6 [[electronic resource] /] / editor, Cheng-Few Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific, c2008

ISBN

1-281-93398-8

9786611933982

981-279-169-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance & Accounting ; ; v.6

Altri autori (Persone)

LeeCheng F

Disciplina

332

657.48

Soggetti

Finance

Finance - Mathematical models

Accounting

Accounting - Mathematical models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Chapter 1 Collateral Constraints, Debt Management, and Investment Incentives Elettra Agliardi and Rainer Andergassen""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Model""; ""2.1. Time 2""; ""2.2. Time 1""; ""2.3. Benchmark""; ""3. Optimal Hedging""; ""4. Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 A Concave Quadratic Programming Marketing Strategy Model with Product Life Cycles Paul Y. Kim, Chin W. Yang, Cindy Hsiao-Ping Peng and Ken Hung""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Linear Programming Marketing Strategy Model""

""3. A Concave Quadratic Programming Model of the Marketing Strategy Problem""""4. Critical Evaluations of the Marketing Strategy Models""; ""5. Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 Evaluating the Robustness of Market Anomaly Evidence William D. Brown Jr., Erin A. Moore and Ray J. Pfeiffer Jr.""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Background""; ""3. Description of the Research Design""; ""3.1. The effects of passive deletion""; ""3.2. The effects of extreme returns""; ""3.3. The forecast-



to-price anomaly""; ""3.4. The accruals anomaly""; ""4. Results""

""4.1. Investigating the effects of passive deletion""""4.2. Investigating the effects of extreme returns""; ""5. Summary and Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4 Why is the Value Relevance of Earnings Lower for High-Tech Firms? B. Brian Lee, Eric Press and B. Ben Choi""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Contemporaneous Association between Returns and Earnings""; ""3. Background and Model Development""; ""3.1. Expense mismatching (earnings lack of timeliness) versus noise for high-technology firms""; ""3.2. Model development""; ""3.3. Noise from uncertain benefits""

""4. Empirical Results""""4.1. Expense mismatching""; ""4.2. Noise""; ""5. Conclusions""; ""APPENDIX""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5 Thirty Years of Canadian Evidence on Stock Splits, Reverse Stock Splits, and Stock Dividends Vijay Jog and Peng Cheng Zhu""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Literature Review""; ""3. Sample Description and Methodology""; ""4. Empirical Results""; ""4.1. Stock price trend""; ""4.2. Stock return trend""; ""4.3. Earnings per share trend""; ""4.4. Systematic risk (beta) trend""; ""4.5. Trading volume trend""; ""4.6. Transaction number trend""

""4.7. Possible changes in shareholder composition""""4.8. Post-split dividend behavior""; ""4.9. Valuation impact""; ""4.10. Post-split corporate governance environment""; ""5. Summary and Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6 Intraday Volume volatility Relation of the DOW: A Behavioral Interpretation Ali F. Darrat, Shafiqur Rahman and Maosen Zhong""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. A Behavioral Interpretation""; ""3. Empirical Results""; ""4. Concluding Remarks""; ""References""

""Chapter 7 The Pricing of Initial Public Offerings: An Option Approach Sheen Liu, Chunchi Wu and Peter Huaiyu Chen""

Sommario/riassunto

News Professor Cheng-Few Lee ranks #1 based on his publications in the 26 core finance journals, and #163 based on publications in the 7 leading finance journals (Source: Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature: 1959-2008 by Jean L Heck and Philip L Cooley (Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University).  Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting