CORPORATE VALUATION SPURRED BY INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY

The stock price crash can result from lacking information transparency, especially in emerging economies characterized by weak corporate governance and high volatility. This study approaches corporate information transparency through the crash risk of stock prices on the Vietnamese market, develops a model that reflects the effect of information disclosure on corporate valuation, and employs two-step system generalized method of moments (S-GMM) estimation for panel data to deal with endogenous problems. This paper finds that the crash risk of stock price, referred to as the low level of information disclosure, creates a significantly negative effect on corporate valuation, expressing that information asymmetry causes serious issues for corporate prospects in the context of an emerging economy. Thus, corporates are suggested to enrich their information disclosure through periodic reports as a crucial mechanism to improve their transparency, reduce stock price crash risk, and enhance their valuation. This study also proposes related recommendations to enhance corporate governance and finance supervisory to maintain sustainability in the future.

Skilled Labor Mobility and Firm Value: Evidence from Green Card Allocations

This paper studies how the labor market frictions of skilled workers affect corporate valuation. The analysis features immigrant workers’ mobility constraints imposed by the U.S. green card application process and exploits exogenous variations caused by imperfections in the current immigration system. The study finds that relaxing mobility constraints negatively influences firm value. This effect is stronger for firms with higher labor adjustment costs. Reductions in investments and increases in labor costs are channels through which labor mobility adversely affects firm value. The findings suggest that monopoly rent over skilled workers is an important economic determinant of corporate valuation.

How Does Firm Size and Capital Structure Affect Firm Value?

Objective: This paper explores whether the firm size and capital structure have an impact on corporate valuation. Then it will raise profitability as an intervening variable on the effect of company size and capital structure on corporate valuation. Research Design & Methods: Data gathering method is finalized by using the documentation method. In this study, data were obtained from published financial reports. Samples from this study were 30 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Findings: The results exhibited that firm size affected profitability and firm value. In the meantime, the capital structure has a big influence on performance and does not affect the company's valuation. Profitability has a positive effect on corporate value. This study also concludes that profitability can mediate firm size to firm value. Conversely, profitability cannot mediate capital structure on corporate value. Implications & Recommendations: This study offers empirical evidence that profitability can be an intervening variable in firm size's effect on firm value. In further research, other variables can be added, which are considered to mediate company size and capital structure on corporate value. Contribution & Value Added: This study's results contribute to the financial literature, especially those related to public corporations' value in Indonesia. As a practical contribution, stockholders can use this study's outcomes as additional information in investment decisions.

Valuation with mixed financing strategies

In corporate valuation, it is common to assume either passive or active debt management. However, it is questionable whether these pure financing policies reflect the real financing policies of firms with a sufficient degree of accuracy. This shortcoming has led to the development of mixed financing strategies as combinations of pure financing strategies. Whereas hybrid financing is directly linked to the two-phase model, it is unclear how to apply discontinuous financing in such a setting. In this study, according to the two versions of hybrid financing, we analyze the implementation of discontinuous financing in a two-phase model. Thereby, we present a simpler and more intuitive derivation of the valuation equation for discontinuous financing to increase its acceptance and its use for corporate valuation practice. Moreover, we compare the different mixed financing strategies with each other theoretically, and we conduct simulations to elucidate the impact on market values and the sensitivities of input parameters. The study concludes that the presented mixed financing strategies can help in the attempt to reflect the real financing behavior of firms more accurately and, therefore, constitute a valuable alternative to pure financing strategies for valuation.