cost by considering earnings quality for accepted companies in tehran stockexchange. this survey investigates a population of 76 companies during the timeperiod of 2009-2014. the results show that under high earnings quality, the marketrisk factor, the book risk to market factor, and the size risk factor have positiveeffects, and the profit risk factor has negative effects on shareholders equit...

We demonstrate that auctioning market licenses may result in higher market prices than assigning them via more random allocation mechanisms. When future market pro…t is uncertain, winning an auction is like winning a lottery ticket. If …rms di¤er in risk attitudes, auctions select the least risk averse …rm, which, in turn, set a higher price (or a higher quantity, in case quantity is the decisi...

Insider trading studies related to the German market have emphasized that outside investors may earn excess returns by mimicking the transactions of corporate directors. Such a result, provided that it holds, would constitute a serious violation of the efficient market hypothesis. The results presented in this paper, though, show that this anomaly is mainly caused by a subset of stocks with hig...

Motivated by recent electronic marketplaces, we consider a single-product make-to-stock manufacturing system that uses two alternative selling channels: long-term contracts and a spot market of electronic orders. At time 0, the risk-averse manufacturer selects the long-term contract price, at which point buyers choose one of the two channels. The resulting long-term contract demand is a determi...

Empirical analysis [see, e.g., McDonald (1985)] suggests that partial vertical integration is a widespread phenomenon. However, there are hardly any theoretical explanations for this composition of industries. Both Arrow (1975) and Green (1986) explicitly allow for partial integration to occur. The former author takes the need for information to be the driving force behind vertical integration,...

Chapter 1 introduced the foundations for the neoliberal interpretation of international institutions’ advocacy of liberalized trade. A critical assumption behind the neoliberal perspective is that free markets are in the collective interest – that is, that liberalized trade maximizes the gains to world as a whole, without regard to how those gains might be distributed. The economic theory under...