Author Archives: Tingting Liu

The Cost of Equity: Evidence From Investment Banking Valuations 

By | December 14, 2022

Cost of equity (COE) is one of the most important financial metrics firms and investors consider when evaluating potential investments. There is an enormous academic literature that either proposes measures of cost of equity or uses it to study asset prices or corporate decisions. Further, practitioners employ discount rates ubiquitously, including for discounted cash flow… Read More »

Earnings growth and acquisition returns: Do investors gamble in the takeover market?

By | November 15, 2021

A growing literature investigates how investors’ gambling behavior affects their investment decisions and asset returns. This literature shows that investors with a taste for gambling concentrate their trading in stocks with lottery-like payoffs, such as stocks with high volatility. In addition, prior studies show that in sports betting, such as racetrack gambling, bettors consistently over… Read More »