Equity Performance, Leverage and Overinvestment

This book discusses the relationship between equity performance, overinvestment and leverage for UK and US markets. This book shows that the Residual Income Model outperforms other valuation models such as the Discounted Cash Flows models. Further, this book introduces a simple way of measuring the overinvestment problem. Moreover, this book explains the non-linearity relationship between leverage and overinvestment and concludes that leverage, at a moderate level, can discipline managers and mitigate the overinvestment problem.