This paper studies the relationship between multinationality and performance under a real options lens. Based on a cross-sectional panel of multinational corporations (MNCs) that are likely to use real options reasoning for the management of their operations, we test the impact of operating and strategic options on firms’ risk-returns parameters. Our evidence reveals that both multinationality ...

The paper characterizes a family of downside risk measures. They depend on a target value and a parameter reflecting the attitude towards downside risk. The indicators are probability weighted −order means of possible shortfalls. They form a subclass of the measures intro¬duced by Stone (1973) and are related to the measures proposed by Fishburn (1977). The axiomatization is based on some prope...

We present a bio-economic model that accounts for the effects of water and nitrogen use on the first three moments of profit margin distributions in Swiss maize production. We thus also account for downside risks in farmers’ decision making processes, which extents currently used bio-economic modeling approaches that address agricultural water use. We find that because irrigation reduces the ne...

Previous research has shown that the returns on individual properties and listed property securities are skewed (Young and Gra¤ 1995 and Liu et al. 1992). This claim is investigated in the context of listed UK property companies. In particular, the shape of the conditional distribution of total monthly returns is examined for a group of 20 companies listed continuously since 1970. Also investig...

Downside deviation, semivariance, or the second lower partial moment are different names for the same risk measure, proposed in the literature for capturing the downside risk of investment decisions. This paper analyzes multiperiod decision making under such a risk measure, and finds that a V-shaped decision rule in wealth is prevalent for the most common assumptions on the distribution of unce...

CAPM is often the method of choice among practioners for estimating the cost of equity for investment projects in developed economies. But for investment projects in emerging economies, CAPM tends to give estimates that are considered too low by experienced financial managers. Sometimes, CAPM estimates of the cost of equity for projects in emerging markets are even lower than those for comparab...

Determining whether investments in information technology (IT) have beneficial effects on an organization is an area of research that continues to interest academics, managers, and investors. Our study contributes to this line of research by examining the effect of investments in IT on the risk profiles of a sample of companies. Additionally, we examine whether different types of IT investments...