TY  - JOUR
AB  - Traces the growth in the use of economic value added (EVA, previously known as residual income) and uses two previous research studies to assess some claims for its merits. Compares EVA’s ability to explain stock returns with that of earnings before extraordinary items (EBEI) and cash flow using 1984‐1993 US data; and finds EBEI is most closely related. Examines EVA’s incentive effects on management investing, financing and operating decisions and shows that, although EVA users decreased new investment, increased dispositions of assets, increased share repurchases, used assets more intensively and increased residual income, market reactions to this were weak. Suggests possible reasons for this and concludes that EVA may align management incentives with shareholders’ interests but this does not necessarily increase shareholder value.
VL  - 24
IS  - 11
SN  - 0307-4358
DO  - 10.1108/03074359810765714
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03074359810765714
AU  - Biddle Gary C.
AU  - Bowen Robert M.
AU  - Wallace James S.
PY  - 1998
Y1  - 1998/01/01
TI  - Economic value added: some empirical EVAdence
T2  - Managerial Finance
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 60
EP  - 71
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -