This paper links the impending vesting of CEO equity to reductions in real investment. Existing studies measure the … current investment opportunities. An interquartile increase is associated with a decline of 0.11% in the growth of R&D (scaled …

We argue that managerial overconfidence can account for corporate investment distortions. Overconfident managers … overestimate the returns to their investment projects and view external funds as unduly costly. Thus, they overinvest when they … have abundant internal funds, but curtail investment when they require external financing. We test the overconfidence …

Investment decisions require trading off current expenditures against future revenues. If revenues extend far enough … into the future, the executives responsible for designing long-run investment policy may no longer be in office by the time … investments during their last years in office. In our empirical work, however, we find that investment expenditures on research …

quarters of the variation in real annual aggregate investment growth between 1948 and 1993. The negative correlation of … contemporaneous investment and stock returns is explained by the negative correlation of planned investment and subsequent stock … returns. Unexpected revisions to aggregate investment (actual minus plan) within a year are essentially unrelated to current …

will have no impact on corporate investment decisions. This paper develops econometric tests which distinguish between … these two views of dividend taxation. By extending Tobin's "q" theory of investment to incorporate taxes at both the … corporate and personal levels, the implications of each view for corporate investment decisions can be derived. The competing …

valuation and investment plans of individual firms. The methods are applied to estimate the effects of alternative corporate tax … reforms on the 30 Dow Jones companies. The estimates are all based on extensions of Tobin's "q Theory of Investment" to take … results here provide strong microeconometric support for the q theory of investment. The q theory approach provides a superior …

This paper overviews the issues connected with proposals to spur investment using tax incentives. There are four main … investment incentives approach $100 billion. (3) Measures to spur investment are likely to have substantial effects. The lags are … possible to spur investment with only a small revenue cost. It is crucial to take account of the effect of anticipated policy …

, 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 …

-preserving investment …

on average q in a univariate regression of investment on average q. In a multiple regression of investment on average q … financial constraint, but it does not indicate a shortage of liquidity to fund current investment. In addition, the coefficient …