Edited by John R.M. Hand,
Professor and Chairman of the Accounting Faculty, Kenan-Flagler Business School,
University of North Carona, and Baruch Lev, Phip Bardes Professor of Accounting and
Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
CONTENTS
John R. M. Hand and Baruch
Lev: Introduction and Overview
Part I: Intangibles
in the Modern Economy
1 Leonard Nakamura: A Trilon
Dollars a Year in Intangible Investment and the New Economy
2 Carl Shapiro and Hal
Varian: The Information Economy
3 Paul Romer: The Soft
Revolution: Achieving Growth by Managing Intangibles
4 Stephen Bond and Jason
Cummins: The Stock Market and Investment in the New Economy: Some Tangible Facts and
Intangible Fictions
Part II: The Impact
of Specific Intangibles on Firm Performance and Market Value
5 Baruch Lev and Theodore
Sougiannis: The Capitazation, Amortization and Value-Relevance of R&D
6 Mary E. Barth, Michael B.
Clement, George Foster and Ron Kasznik: Brand Values and Capital Market Valuation
7 Lynne G. Zucker, Michael
R. Darby and Marilynn B. Brewer: Intellectual Human Capital and the Birth of US
Biotechnology Enterprises
8 Zhen Deng, Baruch Lev and
Francis Narin: Science and Technology as Predictors of Stock Performance
9 Chandra Seethamraju: The
Value Relevance of Trademarks
10 John R. M. Hand: Profits,
Losses and the Non-near Pricing of Internet Stocks
11 Randall Morck and Bernard
Yeung: Why Firms Diversify: Internazation vs. Agency Behavior
12 John R. M. Hand: The
Increasing Returns-to-Scale of Intangibles
Part III: The
Adverse Consequences of the Informational Deficiencies of Intangibles
13 Jeff Boone and K. K.
Raman: Off-Balance Sheet R&D Assets and Market quidity
14 David Aboody and Baruch
Lev: Information Asymmetry, R&D and Insider Gains
15 Louis K. C. Chan, Josef
Lakonishok and Theodore Sougiannis: The Stock Market Valuation of Research and Development
Expenditures
16 Joan Luft and Michael
Sheilds: Why Does Fixation Persist? Experimental Evidence on the Judgment Performance
Effects of Expensing Intangibles
Part IV: The Need
for Solutions
17 Margaret Blair and Steven
Wallman: The Growing Intangibles Reporting Discrepancy
18 Wayne Upton, Jr.:
Challenges from the New Economy for Business and Financial Reporting
19 Baruch Lev and Paul
Zarowin: The Boundaries of Financial Reporting and How to Extend Them
20 Baruch Lev: What Then
Must We Do?
454 pages