We study the determinants of corporate investment growth in the U.S. We use accounting identities to develop a system in which unexpected changes in investment growth are decomposed into surprises to current earnings growth, surprises to current stock returns, revisions of expectations about...

We derive and test q-theory implications for cross-sectional stock returns. Under constant returns to scale, stock returns equal levered investment returns, which are tied directly to firm characteristics. When we use GMM to match average levered investment returns to average observed stock...

We derive and test q-theory implications for cross-sectional stock returns. Under constant returns to scale, stock returns equal levered investment returns, which are tied directly to firm characteristics. When we use GMM to match average levered investment returns to average observed stock...