We propose market timing strategies aiming to exploit the aggregate accruals’ return forecasting power. We examine several performance metrics of the aggregate accruals based market timing strategy such as excess portfolio return, Sharpe ratio, and Jensen’s alpha. We provide robust evidence that, relative to the passive investment strategy of buying and holding the stock market, the market timi...

The cooperation strategy followed by the buyer and vendor results is an overall effect on the saving percentage along with the impact of inventory costs such as holding cost, fixed and linear backorder cost. This paper deals with buyer vendor incentive inventory model with fixed lifetime product with fixed and linear back order cost. A distinguishing feature of this model is that both fixed and...

Our study examines whether price momentum strategy (cross section momentum effect on longshort portfolios) can be profitable on Russian stock market. We testing the statistical significance of zero cost portfolio excess returns. Our sample covers the period from 2004 to 2013 capturing different states of Russian economy. We implement relative strength strategy with 10% quantile to construct equ...

We consider a two-stage tandem queue with two parallel servers and two queues. We assume that initially all jobs are present and that no further arrivals take place at any time. The two servers are identical and can serve both types of job. The processing times are exponentially distributed. After being served, a job of queue 1 joins queue 2, whereas a job of queue 2 leaves the system. Holding ...

We consider precautionary liquidity holding as counter-strategy for the entrant to protect himself from predation. Threat of predation, even if avoided in equilibrium, affects the financial contract to raise precautionary liquidity and the equilibrium outcome in the product market competition. When the incumbent’s strategy is unverifiable, the entrant with small start-up capital cannot raise la...