Category: Valuation Issues
11/15/12
02:26:11 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 37 words 
Categories: Academic, Valuation Issues, Accounting
Are corporate bonds one of the asset bubbles. The Economist has a distinctive view:The Economist: Desperately seeking yieldInvestors are gorging on corporate bonds. Is an asset bubble being inflated? Nov. 10, 2012Keywords: Corporate Finance, Co… more »
05/25/12
06:43:15 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 140 words
Categories: Initial Public Offerings, Opinion on Specific Transactions, Valuation Issues
The Daily Beast: Wall Street, not Facebook, Bears Most of the Blame for the Company’s IPO Debacle, May 24, 2012
..."Today, graduates want to work at the next Facebook, and the company’s current share price won’t change that one bit. Today, talented yo… more »
05/15/12
10:38:29 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 62 words
Categories: Opinion on Specific Transactions, Valuation Issues, M&A
If two overconfident testosterone loaden banker dealers dance tango for a deal, things might not turn out right. Put them in a cold shouwer befort starting to gegotiate. Values have to to with fundamentals of the bursiness.Take testosterone guys out of t… more »
04/11/12
10:56:26 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 26 words
Categories: Academic, Valuation Issues, Statistics
The Capital Spectator: on the equity risk premium, April 11, 2012How much should people get paid for investing in the stockmarket?read more hereKeywords: Equity Risk Premium, Volatility more »
02/08/12
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10/04/11
07:01:27 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 17 words
Categories: Opinion on Specific Transactions, Valuation Issues, Statistics
Voxeu.org: How to rescue the euro: Ten commandments, Hans-Werner Sinn, Oct. 3, 2011Keywords: Share Buyback, Valuation of Shares more »
09/15/11
07:19:14 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 25 words
Categories: Initial Public Offerings, Opinion on Specific Transactions, Valuation Issues
That IPO Pop? Majority of 2011 U.S. Listings Are Underwater, Sept. 15, 2011
Groupon Back on Track for Its I.P.O., Sept. 14, 2011
Keywords: IPO, Initial Public Offering, Capital Markets more »
05/27/11
04:26:57 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 67 words
Categories: Initial Public Offerings, Valuation Issues, Statistics
Once more a great IPO statistic by Jay Ritter. It shows the money left on the table in IPOs, defined as the difference between the closing price on the first day of trading
and the offer price, multiplied by the number of shares sold:
Money Left on t… more »
05/19/11
06:41:19 am, by admin , 122 words
Categories: Initial Public Offerings, Opinion on Specific Transactions, Valuation Issues
Great interview about the Linkedin IPO in specific and the prospects for other social network companies in general:Scott Kessler, head of technology equity research at Standard & Poor's, Jay Ritter, a finance professor at the University of Florid… more »
02/22/11
Great new study by HBS, which shows that executive background matters for goodwill impairment choices. One could conclude that firms need a diverse group of executives and board members in order to have an appropriate checks and balances system.
Broch… more »
01/05/11
12:17:18 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 219 words
Categories: Academic, Valuation Issues, Statistics, M&A
Ellis, Jesse A., Moeller, Sara B., Schlingemann, Frederik P. and Stulz, Rene M., Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions (January 3, 2011). Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2011-1; Fisher College of Business Workin… more »
12/28/10
08:51:46 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 227 words
Categories: Academic, Valuation Issues, Statistics
Nguyen, Bang Dang and Nielsen, Kasper Meisner, What Death can Tell: Are Executives Paid for Their Contributions to Firm Value? (May 11, 2010). Paris December 2010 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1695366Ba… more »
12/07/09
06:34:39 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 3 words
Categories: Opinion on Specific Transactions, Valuation Issues
Source: The Deal more »
09/04/09
08:53:44 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 341 words
Categories: Valuation Issues, Accounting
I came across a distressed LBO case in the machine sector. The company was originally leveraged with 5 times EBITDA. Due to the market crisis it now faces a major decrease of profitability. Furthermore, it has to push innovation investing in order to be… more »
02/02/09
05:29:21 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 187 words
Categories: Valuation Issues, Accounting
Valuing toxic assets seems to be more an art than a science. It might also depend on who you do it for..
NYT: Risks Are Vast in Revaluation of Assets, Feb. 1, 2009
"The wild variations on the value of many bad bank assets can be seen by looking at… more »
01/08/09
08:36:28 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 151 words
Categories: Academic, Opinion on Specific Transactions, Valuation Issues, Accounting
Paulson’s Gift, Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago, NBER & CEPR and Luigi Zingales,
University of Chicago, NBER & CEPR, November 5, 2008
Paper Abstract:
"We calculate the costs and benefits of the largest ever U.S. Government interve… more »
01/05/08
01:01:40 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 168 words
Categories: Valuation Issues, Accounting
The role of information asymmetry and financial reporting quality in debt contracting: Evidence from the secondary loan market, Regina Wittenberg Moerman, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, March 2006
"I employ unique data on second… more »
11/22/07
This Banque de France Bulletin, November 2001 has been published in 2001. It deals with credit cycles, volatility and misalignments in financial markets, the degree of sensitivity of the business cycle
to the financial cycle, herd behaviour in financial… more »
03/10/07
The team of Brand Finance Plc annually publishes the Global Intangible Tracker. The 2006 version is the most extensive report ever compiled into intangible asset and covers over 5,000 companies in 25 countries. It demonstrates the importance of intangibl… more »
02/24/07
Attached paper uses regression techniques to decompose the market to book ratio (M/B ratio) into components that track misvaluation at the firm and sector levels and a component that tracks long-run growth opportunities. The objective of the researchers… more »
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