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Corporate Brand and Firm Value

José Rosário
MarketTools

Claudia Custodio
ISCTE Business School (IBS); London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)


March 2007


Abstract:     
This study aims to find if a strong Corporate Brand contributes positively to the market value of the firm. The sample in use corresponds to 362 US companies from COMPUSTAT database that were also considered by Fortune in 2002 to construct the America's Most Admired Companies index. The results obtained provide empirical evidence supporting the main hypothesis of the study and are consistent with existing branding theory, that brand activities create shareholders value by increasing the future cash flows. The findings are robust after controlling for other variables that are known from financial theory to impact the firm value and also after correcting the Fortune index for what is known to be the financial halo effect, i.e. by removing the effect created by the past financial performance.

Keywords: corporate brand, brand, firm value, social responsibility, Fortune and America's Most Admired Companies

JEL Classifications: G14, M31

Working Paper Series

Date posted: May 21, 2007 ; Last revised: May 21, 2007

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Rosário, José and Custodio, Claudia, Corporate Brand and Firm Value (March 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=987581


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Claudia Custodio
ISCTE Business School (IBS) ( email )
Complexo INDEG/ISCTE
Av. Prof. Anibal Bettencourt
1600-189 Lisboa 1649-026
Portugal
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) ( email )
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
José Manuel Rosário
MarketTools ( email )
67-74 Saffron Hill
London EC1N 8QX
United Kingdom
02074408527 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://www.markettools.eu
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