کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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986899 | 1480813 | 2014 | 20 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Study a particular form of intangible capital -brand capital.
• Document its importance for market value and risk of corporations.
• Propose a neoclassical investment-based model augmented with brand capital.
• Model matches the asset pricing facts and properties of firm level investment.
We study the role of brand capital – a primary form of intangible capital – for firm valuation and risk in the cross section of publicly traded firms. Using an empirical measure of brand capital stock constructed from advertising expenditures accounting data, we show that: (i) firms with low brand capital investment rates have higher average stock returns than firms with high brand capital investment rates, a difference of 5.2% per annum; (ii) more brand capital intensive firms have higher average stock returns than less brand capital intensive firms, a difference of 5.1% per annum; and (iii) investment in both brand capital and physical capital is volatile and procyclical. A neoclassical investment-based model in which brand capital is a factor of production subject to adjustment costs matches the data well. The model also provides a novel explanation for the empirical links between advertising expenditures and stock returns around seasoned equity offerings (SEO) documented in previous studies.
Journal: Review of Economic Dynamics - Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 150–169