The article discusses social responsibility and stock valuation. An empirical study was made
of investors valuation of nine paper companies after substantial publicity was released …

… Russell Fogler acknowledges computing support from the University of Florida. Kose
John received support from a Faculty Research Grant from the Graduate School of Business …

In this paper, we consider two hypotheses for the recent performance of real estate returns.
The first is the random event argument that real estate is positively correlated with …

Corporate planning has been increasingly assisted by advances in the three major areas of
economic forecasting: (1) econometric models, (2) time-series analysis, and (3) business …

Certainly, the concept of skewness of returns and its role in the context of portfolio analysis
has gained increasing attention in recent literature. Witness the studies by Alderfer and …

Despite recent advances in applications in the abstract, management has shown little, or no,
interest in the use of mathematical programming for capital budgeting. This does not …

… spread between the shortest three maturities, and the remaining 73 percent to the 20-year
bond (the role of short maturities in maximizing terminal wealth is summarized in Fogler [6, pp. …

T HE purpose of this paper is to re-em-phasize the effectiveness of simple ranking techniques
in the heuristic solution of capital budgeting problems. The functional relationship between …

Most of Ben Graham's ratio analysis philosophy in 1931 still works today. Using a multifactor
framework, security analysis is shown to seek 4 contrarian attributes: 1. non-obviousness, 2. …

As artificial neural nets (ANN) move from voice and visual pattern recognition to the stock
market, prices will be affected by their presence. Hence, analysts need to understand their …