Iwan Meier

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

iA Financial Group Chair in Sustainable Finance

3000 Chemin de la Cote-Sainte-Catherine

Montreal, Quebec H3T 2A7 H2J 2K9

Canada

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (17)

1.

Corporate Investment Decision Practices and the Hurdle Rate Premium Puzzle

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Iwan Meier and Vefa Tarhan
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and Loyola University of Chicago - School of Business Administration
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Discount rate, Cost of capital, Hurdle rate premium, Cash flow calculation, Project valuation, Survey

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Why Do Firms Use High Discount Rates?

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 22 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2015
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and Loyola University of Chicago - School of Business Administration
Downloads 1,222 (36,795)
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Capital budgeting; discount rates; cost of capital

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Performance and Characteristics of Mutual Fund Starts

The European Journal of Finance (2009, Vol.15)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2014
Aymen Karoui and Iwan Meier
York University and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
Downloads 564 (104,528)
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Mutual funds, Fund starts; Performance evaluation; Performance persistence

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Style Rotation and Performance Persistence of Mutual Funds

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2009
Iwan Meier and J. V. K. Rombouts
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal
Downloads 510 (118,430)
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Mutual fund, Performance persistence, Style rotation

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Investment and Financing Decisions of Private and Public Firms

29th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2016
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2018
Wolfgang Drobetz, Malte Janzen and Iwan Meier
University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
Downloads 355 (180,197)
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corporate investment, cash flow allocation, private firms, agency problems

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Do We Need CAPM for Capital Budgeting?

NBER Working Paper No. w8719
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2022
Iwan Meier and Ravi Jagannathan
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 300 (214,353)
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Do We Need CAPM for Capital Budgeting?

Financial Management, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 2002
Posted: 18 Jul 2003
Iwan Meier and Ravi Jagannathan
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

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Social Premiums

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Apr 2024
University of Alberta - School of Business, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and University of Alberta - School of Business
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ESG, MSCI, return predictability, risk premiums, S, social scores

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Persistence Analysis of Hedge Fund Returns

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2010
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
Downloads 260 (250,438)
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Hedge funds, Markov chain, smoothed returns, persistence, high water mark

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The Relation between Excess Control and Cost of Capital Under Different Law Regimes

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Oct 2010
Claude Laurin, Yves Bozec and Iwan Meier
HEC Montreal - Department of Accounting Studies, HEC Montreal and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
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corporate governance, cost of capital, excess control, ownership, dominant shareholders, agency costs

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Leverage, Beta Estimation, and the Size Effect

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Aug 2014
Wolfgang Drobetz, Iwan Meier and Jörg Seidel
University of Hamburg, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and University of Hamburg - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Chair of Corporate and Ship Finance
Downloads 150 (415,934)
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Size effect, capital asset pricing model, leverage, estimation

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Fund Performance and Subsequent Risk: A Study of Mutual Fund Tournaments Using Holdings-Based Measures

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2019
Iwan Meier and Aymen Karoui
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and York University
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Mutual funds, tournament, risk shifting, holdings-based measure

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A Note on Sorting Bias Correction in Regression-Based Mutual Fund Tournament Tests

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2019
Aymen Karoui and Iwan Meier
York University and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
Downloads 127 (475,146)

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Mutual funds, tournament, sorting bias, risk shifting

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The Cross-Section of Hurdle Rates for Capital Budgeting: An Empirical Analysis of Survey Data

NBER Working Paper No. w16770
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2023
Ravi Jagannathan, Iwan Meier and Vefa Tarhan
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and Loyola University of Chicago - School of Business Administration
Downloads 111 (526,759)

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Dirty Business: Transition Risk of Factor Portfolios

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 15 Apr 2025
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and University of Alberta - School of Business
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Climate finance, divestment, emissions, ESG, greenium, pollution, risk, brownium

Dirty Business: Transition Risk of Factor Portfolios

NBER Working Paper No. w33535
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 04 Mar 2025
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and University of Alberta - School of Business
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Global Cash Flow Sensitivities

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Aug 2017
University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
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Cash Flow Sensitivity, Financial Development, Law and Finance

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A Firm's Cost of Capital

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 259-282, 2017
Posted: 03 Jan 2018
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

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The International Zero-Leverage Phenomenon

Midwest Finance Association 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2014
University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

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Capital structure, zero-leverage, debt conservatism, financial constraints, financial flexibility

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 163
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The Impact of Liquidity Crises on Cash Flow Sensitivities

26th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2013
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2014
University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance and Loyola University of Chicago - School of Business Administration
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Cash flow sensitivity, financial constraints, liquidity crises, investment spending, supply side shock