This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the … Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition … network services, which creates a significant investment disincentive …

The Q-theory of investment says that a firm's investment rate should rise with its Q. We argue here that this theory … also explains why some firms buy other firms. We find that 1. A firm's merger and acquisition (Mamp;A) investment responds … investment, i.e., the 'Free-Cash Flow' story works, but explains a small fraction of mergers only, and 3. The merger waves of …

We develop a dynamic model of trading and investment with limited aggregate resources to study investment cycles …. Unverifiable idiosyncratic investment opportunities imply market prices to play a role of rent distribution, distorting private … investment incentives from a social point of view. This distortion is price-dependent, leading to two-sided inefficient …

This essay surveys the body of research that asks how the efficiency of corporate investment is influenced by problems … that the marginal return to investment in firm i is the same as the marginal return to investment in firm j? Second, do … capital budgeting process get within-firm allocations right, so that the marginal return to investment in firm i's division A …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low and middle income … productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio … stakeholders. We emphasize the crucial role played by FDI in sustaining equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by …

' buyers acquire constrained' targets. This result holds while controlling for merger terms and for different proxies used to …

The strong positive relationship between corporate cash flow and investment has been interpreted through the lens of … rights to tracts of federal land. We find the standard positive relationship between investment and cash flow in this data … these leases. Interestingly, the increased investment comes from an increase in the price paid per tract with little to no …