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 …

We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period … by an average of 5.4 percentage points. Cross-sectional changes in investment are significantly correlated with the … investment; country-specific changes in the cost of capital predict a 2.3-percentage point increase in investment; firm …

We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …

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 …

firm characteristics - Tobin's Q, past investment, earnings-price ratios, market betas, and idiosyncratic volatility of … returns by aggregate investment and valuation ratios; and v) a downward sloping term structure of risk premia for dividend … strips. Our model delivers testable predictions about the behavior of firm-level real variables - investment and output …

We develop an integrated theory of investment, seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), liquidation, and corporate savings … payout policies. Facing costly external financing, the firm prefers to fund its investment internally, so that its optimal … substantial delay in investment; (4) A financially constrained firm over-invests in early stages of its life-cycle in an effort to …

, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase … their incentives thereby lowering productivity and discouraging investment. If leverage is unregulated (for example, due to … payouts by stimulating investment in response to adverse shocks only up to a level below the first-best. The optimal monetary …