This study investigates the relationship between managerial optimism, investment efficiency and firm valuation. This study follows the Campbell's measurement for managerial optimism and investigates the influences of the different levels of managerial optimism on improving investment efficiency...

We examine the relation between family presence and corporate investment policy. Our analysis centers on two incentives that potentially lead to differences in investment policy between family firms and nonfamily firms: family owners' risk aversion and their real option to invest. Our findings...