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Comment: Evaluating Negative Benefits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

James Miles  and
Dosoung Choi
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In a recent article [1], Beedles suggests that the valuation process for cash outflows (or negative benefits using his terminology) is, in some sense, different from the valuation process for cash inflows. This result, however, is not consistent with the assumption of perfect capital markets. Any cash outflow from one firm represents a cash inflow to some other firm(s) or investor(s). Consequently, any difference in the valuation processes for cash outflows and cash inflows will create profitable arbitrage possibilities.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , December 1979 , pp. 1095 - 1099
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1979

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