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Valuing Resource Investments

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  • Kenneth W. Clements

    (Business School, University of Western Australia)

  • Liang Li

    (Business School, University of Western Australia)

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The Millennium Boom of 2003–2011 made the resources industry hugely profitable and led to a surge in new projects around the world. This had major implications for the Australian economy: resource investment accounted for almost half of all business investment at the peak, the capitalisation of resource companies as a group surged by approximately 50% relative to the market, and the buoyancy of the sector helped Australia to avoid the worst of the global financial crisis. This paper examines the wealth-creating effects of new resource projects at the individual company level. Results show that substantial increases in shareholder returns occurred around the time of announcements of government approval for projects, the finalisation of feasibility studies, and changes in the status of projects such as when a company committed to invest in a project. This capital-market approach seems to be a viable alternative to conventional ways of valuing resource projects.

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  • Kenneth W. Clements & Liang Li, 2014. "Valuing Resource Investments," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 14-27, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
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