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INTERACTIONS OF CORPORATE FINANCING AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS—IMPLICATIONS FOR CAPITAL BUDGETING: COMMENT

Published: 3/1977,  Volume: 32,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03258.x  |  Cited by: 6

Sasson Bar‐Yosef


ON SOME DEFINITIONAL PROBLEMS WITH THE METHOD OF CERTAINTY EQUIVALENTS

Published: 12/1977,  Volume: 32,  Issue: 5  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03366.x  |  Cited by: 6

Sasson Bar‐Yosef, Roger Mesznik


A REEXAMINATION OF STOCK SPLITS USING MOVING BETAS

Published: 9/1977,  Volume: 32,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03310.x  |  Cited by: 45

Sasson Bar‐Yosef, Lawrence D. Brown


Autoregressive Modeling of Earnings‐Investment Causality

Published: 3/1987,  Volume: 42,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1987.tb02547.x  |  Cited by: 26

SASSON BAR‐YOSEF, JEFFREY L. CALLEN, JOSHUA LIVNAT

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the relationships between corporate earnings and investment. In particular, the study investigates whether knowledge of past investments improves the prediction of future earnings beyond predictions that are based on past earnings alone. Similarly, it investigates whether knowledge of past earnings improves the prediction of future investments beyond knowledge of past investments alone. This is the empirical definition of Granger causality. The empirical results show that the bivariate past series of earnings and investments is superior to the univariate series in predicting future investments but not in predicting future earnings.


Dividend Surprises Inferred from Option and Stock Prices

Published: 9/1992,  Volume: 47,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1992.tb04675.x  |  Cited by: 7

SASSON BAE‐YOSEF, ODED H. SARIG

This paper introduces a new method to measure the unexpected component of dividend announcements. While measures used previously were based on various arbitrary models of dividend expectations, our suggested method compares the reaction of stock and option prices to dividend announcements. Our measure is compared to commonly used model‐based measures, to a Box‐Jenkins time‐series‐based measure, and to a Value‐Line Investor Survey‐based measure of dividend surprises. The new measure is more highly correlated with the market's reaction to the announcements than are alternative measures of dividend surprises. The new measure is also shown to be insensitive to the extent to which the options used to identify unexpected dividend announcements are in‐ or out‐of‐the‐money.


A PORTFOLIO APPROACH TO FOSSIL FUEL PROCUREMENT IN THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY

Published: 6/1976,  Volume: 31,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb01935.x  |  Cited by: 103

Dan Bar‐Lev, Steven Katz