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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

impact, and its persistence, depend on the ratio of two parameters: the long-run interest rate elasticity of money demand and … the intertemporal substitution elasticity. At the same time, the model has completely classical long-run predictions …