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Broad-Capitalization Indexes of the U.S. Equity Market

The Journal of Investing, 2003
Market indices need to serve triple duty-they are used as portfolios (index funds), as the starting point for actively managed funds, and as benchmarks for performance evaluation. The criteria used to select an index reflect the tension between these roles.
Francis J. Enderle, Brad Pope, Laurence B. Siegel   +2 more
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Capital Redeployment in the Equity Market

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Payouts, in the form of dividends and buybacks, reached a height of almost a trillion dollars per annum in recent years. A large proportion of these dollars have been directly reinvested into the stock market. Drawing on data on mutual fund holdings, I show that capital repayments are accompanied by predictable excess returns in stocks connected to ...
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Equity Market: The Capital Asset Pricing Model

2004
Abstract At the heart of financial theory is the study of the time value of money in relation to the risk premium. If we lived in a world without risk, much of finance would be reduced to the bookkeeping of cash flows, paying taxes, distributing profits, covering expenses, and reporting returns.
Thomas S Y Ho, Sang Bin Lee
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Equity market timing and capital structure: International evidence

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2008
Abstract We investigate the equity market timing hypothesis of capital structure in major industrialized (G-7) countries. As claimed by its proponents, we find that leverage of firms is negatively related to the historical market-to-book ratio in all G-7 countries. However, this negative relationship cannot be attributed to equity market timing.
Arvind Mahajan, Semih Tartaroglu
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Venture capital funds and the public equity market

Accounting & Finance, 2010
AbstractThis paper considers the relationship between the public equity market and the returns to venture investing using a dataset which is derived from the records of two large limited partners who have been investing in venture capital for almost 30 years.
Michael D. McKenzie, William H. Janeway
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Capital markets issuers: equity securities

2023
The chapter analyses the role of equity capital markets for the funding of Italian companies, by focusing on their capital structure and financing needs, as well as their ownership structure.
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Equity markets, transaction costs, and capital accumulation [PDF]

, 1995
There is a close, if imperfect, relationship between the effectiveness of an economy's capital markets and its level (or rate of growth) of real development. This may be because financial markets provide liquidity, promote the sharing of information, or permit agents to specialize.
Bencivenga, Valerie R., Smith, Bruce D., Starr, Ross M.   +2 more
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Simplification of equity capital structure and market value

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2002
Since the new Swiss Stock Corporation Law came into effect in 1992, most listed Swiss companies have reduced the number of share classes outstanding by exchanging some classes for an already existing one. Overall, the simplifications have had no significant influence on market capitalisation.
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Expanding the Role of Marketing: From Customer Equity to Market Capitalization

Journal of Marketing, 2009
Can a marketer drive the stock price of the firm? Yes, it should be possible. Toward this endeavor, the authors develop a framework to link customer equity (CE) (as determined by the customer lifetime value metric) to market capitalization (MC) (as determined by the stock price of the firm).
V. Kumar, Denish Shah
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Market Segmentation and the Cost of Capital in International Equity Markets

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1998
While theoretical models predict a decrease in the cost of capital from depositary receipt offerings, the economic benefits of this liberalization have been difficult to quantify. Using a sample of 126 firms from 32 countries, we document a significant decline of 42% in the cost of capital. In addition, we show the decline is driven by the ability of U.
Errunza, Vihang R., Miller, Darius P.
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