Advertising, research and development, and capital market risk: higher risk firms versus lower risk firms

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Chi-Lu Peng¹  An-Pin Wei²  Miao-Ling Chen² 

[1] Department of Finance, Chung Hua University, 707, Sec. 2, Wu Fu Rd., Hsin Chu 300, Taiwan (R.O.C.);Department of Finance, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70 Lien-hai Rd., Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan (R.O.C.);

关键词: β-risk;    idiosyncratic risk;    advertising;    marketing;    R&D;    quantile regression;   

DOI  :  10.3846/16111699.2012.666998

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This study examines how a firm's advertising and R&D affects the firm's β-risk and idiosyncratic risk, which are metrics of interest to both finance executives and senior management. Due to the existence of a non-normal and heteroscedasticity dataset, we use quantile regression to analyze the sample to understand the full behavior of our non-normally distributed datapoints. The evidence of this study shows that: (1) Advertising is significantly associated with lower β-risk for firms with lower, median and higher β-risk. (2) R&D significantly increases β-risk for firms with median and higher β-risk firms. (3) Advertising is significantly associated with lower idiosyncratic risk for firms with higher idiosyncratic risk. (4) R&D is significantly associated with higher idiosyncratic risk for firms with median and higher idiosyncratic risk. In summary, our evidence shows that both advertising and R&D have a stronger effect on firms with higher β- and idiosyncratic risk than on those with lower β- and idiosyncratic risk, respectively. Our findings are useful to help both management executives and investors. Firm managers can allocate limited resources more efficiently to reduce their firm risk; investors could exert their influence on firm's senior executives to make decisions that are beneficial to stock returns.

【 授权许可】

Unknown