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New Evidence on the Value Additivity Principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Malcolm R. Burns
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Abstract

This paper tests the Value Additivity Principle (VAP) of financial assets with the pricing of Standard Oil securities in 1912. The results are somewhat mixed: the VAP does not generally describe the daily prices of equivalent Standard Oil portfolios, but it accurately describes their average market values; and the portfolio values display convergent adjustment behavior that tends to equalize them quite rapidly. On balance, these findings are consistent with the VAP.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 1987 , pp. 65 - 77
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1987

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