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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Governing Misvalued Firms

By: Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for managerial misbehavior, while monitoring and corporate governance curb misbehavior. We combine these two insights from the literatures on misvaluation and governance to ask, when does governance matter?... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Performance; Corporate Governance
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  • 16 Nov 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Governing Misvalued Firms

Keywords: by Dalida Kadyrzhanova & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
  • March 2013
  • Article

Misvaluing Innovation

By: Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy
We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute, and yet the stock market ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Return Predictability; R＆D; Information; Forecasting and Prediction; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

By: Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We theoretically and empirically investigate the repercussions of credit market misvaluation for a firm's borrowing and investment decisions. Using an ex-post measure of the accuracy of credit ratings to capture debt market misvaluation, we find evidence that firms... View Details
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  • 23 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

By: Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Jarrad Harford
This paper introduces the impact of debt misvaluation on merger and acquisition activity. Debt misvaluation helps explain the shifting dominance of financial acquirers (private equity firms) relative to strategic acquirers (operating companies). The effects of... View Details
Keywords: Misvaluation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity
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  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

Keywords: by Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf & Jarrad Harford
  • Article

Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, David Robinson and S. Viswanathan
To test recent theories suggesting that valuation errors affect merger activity, we develop a decomposition that breaks the market-to-book ratio (M/B) into three components: the firm-specific pricing deviation from short-run industry pricing; sector-wide, short-run... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Theory; Behavior
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  • Research Summary

The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

This paper explores an unexplored benefit of being privately-held: Non-SEC-filing private firms’ ability to disclose confidential information to selected investors minimizes the scope for information asymmetry between the firms and their investors. This decreases... View Details

  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Private firms’ ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Equity; Private Companies; Corporate Cash; Precautionary Motives; Share Issuance; IPOs; Selective Disclosure; Private Ownership; Cash; Market Timing; Corporate Finance; Public Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; United States
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  • 29 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa
  • 09 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure

Keywords: by Sergey Chernenko, C. Fritz Foley & Robin Greenwood
  • 20 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

"debt market misvaluation," the idea that debt can be misvalued, just as stocks can be misvalued. "There's a lot of empirical evidence that equity misvaluations were driving merger waves and that being overvalued makes a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?

always sets the accurate worth of a company—that so-called misvaluation is merely an illusion perceived by managers. But to him that point is an academic one. “Ultimately,” he says, “company managers are making these [cash policy]... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

strategies: matching, within-firm variation, and instrumental variable. Public firms' greater access to capital accounts for about one-quarter of the difference. The remainder can be explained by differences in the extent to which public and private firms engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

activity between strategic (operating firms) and financial (private equity) acquirers. What are the economic factors that drive either financial or strategic buyers to dominant positions in M&A activity? We introduce debt market View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

disclose confidential information to selected investors minimizes the scope for information asymmetry between the firms and their investors. This decreases private firms' exposure to misvaluation and leads them to hold lower levels of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

misvaluation as explanations for this relation, we analyze the association between our measure of external financing and sell-side analysts' forecasts. Consistent with the misvaluation explanation, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

these businesses helps to explain why in more recent decades private waste companies have been associated with late entry into recycling, often trailing municipal governments and non-profit entities. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2404487 Governing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43264 Governing Misvalued Firms Authors: Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for manager misbehavior, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne