overinvestment using Korean data from 2007 to 2016. Since Jensen (1986) shows that a firm's free cash flow is an important factor of … overinvestment, the authors examine how free cash flow influences the sensitivity of overinvestment to EPU. The authors find that a … high level of free cash flow attenuates the negative effect of EPU on overinvestment. The authors find that there is no …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of economic policy uncertainty on firms' investment decisions. We … (EPU) indicator available for this country. We find strong evidence that uncertainty reduces corporate investment. This …-related uncertainty reduces corporate investment through increases in precautionary savings or to worsening of credit conditions. …

corporate investment decisions and how this impact varies across countries having better governance quality. To achieve the … reveals an inverse relationship between EPU and corporate investment while a direct relationship between governance quality … and corporate investment. In addition to individual impact, better governance quality can mitigate the magnitude of the …

This paper aims to examine how shocks arising from Economic Policy Uncertainty affect corporate investment in Brazil … Exchange (B3). The results confirm the negative relationship between Corporate Investment and Economic Policy Uncertainty … is no evidence that Brazilian Economic Policy local metric affects Corporate Investment. Different robustness checks were …

investment and steepened term structure as the transmission mechanisms. …

investment and steepened term structure as transmission mechanisms. …