We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …

shareholders and managers in which managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. Managers overinvest when they … compensation, investment, and firm performance for both cases. The relationship between firm performance and managerial incentives …, in isolation, is insufficient to identify whether managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. In order …

investment opportunities drive the cross-sectional variation in the post-liberalization investment increases …

countries. The cross-country income elasticity of establishment size is remarkably similar across sectors, about 0.3. We discuss …

We study how investors' preferences for robustness influence corporate investment, financing, and compensation … ambiguity aversion lowers Tobin's q; the average investment, and investment volatility. The entrepreneur values the project at …

We analyze private fixed investment in the U.S. over the past 30 years. We show that investment is weak relative to … two broad categories of explanations: theories that predict low investment because of low Q, and theories that predict low … investment despite high Q. We argue that the data does not support the first category, and we focus on the second one. We use …

Around the world, large corporations usually have controlling owners, who are usually very wealthy families. Outside … devices, a family can control corporations without making a commensurate capital investment. In many countries, such families …