We find that motivated monitoring by institutional investors mitigates firm investment inefficiency, estimated by … type. We also show that closer monitoring mitigates the problem of both over-investing free cash flows and under-investment …

The relationship between investment efficiency and investment transparency is investigated using a sample of Australian … investment efficiency may influence the informativeness of investment disclosures, and present evidence that investment … achieve higher profitability and cash flow from operations surrounding the investment announcements, and that high sales …

illiquid assets and cash, the World Wealth Report 2016 calculated that globally, 31% of high net worth investment portfolios …, investors, philanthropists, and nonprofits around the topic of impact investment — the practice of investing with the intention … of a drop in the bucket.Yet, if impact investment does its homework, and asserts itself as an investment style rather …

This chapter encapsulates the most recent findings on sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment activity globally. The key …, SWF allocation strategies, their recent investment behavior and its likely evolution in the foreseeable future …

Impact investment has emerged as a socially aware response to contemporary socioeconomic challenges. The combined … pursuit of investment efficiency with proactive furtherance of socially beneficial goals appears particularly relevant in an … of impact investment: its origins, philosophy, taxonomy and evolution. The key research dilemma addressed herein boils …

firms and the overall economy. Foreign direct investment is usually defined as dominant or controlling ownership of a …

Existing models of the size and scope of investment activity traditionally assume an infinite pool of ex-ante identical … investigate optimal project selection in a model in which a portfolio manager observes a limited pool of heterogeneous investment … opportunities. We use an order statistics argument to derive predictions on the size and scope of the investment portfolio. Counter …