The paper investigates the relationship between the stock market and the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve in the last twenty years. To this purpose we construct an Index of Stock Price Misalignment in which the fundamental value of the stocks is computed on the basis of the discounted cash flow approach and we then include this index, among the regressors, into a forward looking Taylor ru...

We introduce a novel conditional e-cash protocol allowing future anonymous cashing of bank-issued e-money only upon the satisfaction of an agreedupon public condition. Payers are able to remunerate payees for services that depend on future, yet to be determined outcomes of events. Moreover, payees are able to further transfer payments to third parties. Once payment complete, any double-spending...

This paper examines the effects of costly external financing on the optimal timing of a firm’s investment. By altering the optimal investment timing, costly financing affects current investment and the sensitivity of investment to internal cash flow. Importantly, the relation between the cost of external funds and investment-cash flow sensitivity is non-monotonic. Investment-cash flow sensitivi...

Everyone knows that starting a business requires cash, and growing a business requires even more. But few people understand that a profitable company that tries to grow too fast can run out of cash even if its products are great successes. So a big challenge for managers of any growing concern is to strike the proper balance between consuming cash and generating it. Authors Neil Churchill and J...

I analyze cash flow characteristics of listed infrastructure investment companies and funds and compare this unique infrastructure sample with a noninfrastructure reference group. I confirm that infrastructure investment provide more stable cash flows than non-infrastructure investments. However, I do not find that investors positively value this cash flow stability. Instead, more volatile cash...

I quantify a new motive of holding cash through the channel of financing risk. I show that if the access to future credit is risky, firms may issue long-term debt now and save funds in cash to secure the current credit capacity for the future. I structurally estimate the model and find that this motive explains about 30% of cash holdings in the data. Counterfactual experiments indicate that the...

Private equity investors have traditionally used innovative financial methods in structuring their leveraged buyouts (LBO) deals. In recent years, they have frequently employed securitization to raise funds on the back of their acquisitions’ operating assets. A distinctive feature of these transactions is that they aim to enhance the securitizing LBO’s debt pay capacity through a set of structu...

Sector funds are an important and growing segment of the mutual fund industry. This paper analyzes the performance of 609 actively managed stock sector funds listed on the CRSP Survivor-Bias Free US Mutual Fund Database during 1972-1999. We use a five-factor model to document the following results. First, sector funds as a group neither outperform nor underperform their benchmarks. Second, sect...

In traditional study of supply chain management, people mainly consider the decisions from perspective of the operations management, such as, capacity, inventory, ordering level, pricing, etc., and often ignore to consider the impact of financial flow within the supply chain. However, the key function of supply chain management is concerned with the coordination of material flows, information f...