Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Vol. 22 No. 1 1987
New Evidence on the Value Additivity Principle
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.
- DOI
- 10.2307/2330870
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 65
- Sources
- crossref openalex