positive semi variances of returns leads to higher investment …

We document that climate uncertainty negatively affects corporate investment. The effect is more pronounced for firms … adaptation plans mitigate the negative effects of climate uncertainty on corporate investment. We establish this result using the … corporate investment, but climate adaptation plans shield firms from climate uncertainty contributing to investment resilience …

This paper studies the herding behavior in managers' investment decision; Herding", specifically, is defined as … managers' chosen optimal investment level deviates from the first best and is drawn closer to an external reference point - for … example, the average investment level in an industry. The key mechanism in the model is that man-agers' latent skill variable …

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers … the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000 manufacturing plants. We find three key results. First, investment is … associated with about a 6% reduction in investment. Second, uncertainty is also negatively related to employment growth and …

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers … the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000 manufacturing plants. We find three key results. First, investment is … associated with about a 6% reduction in investment. Second, uncertainty is also negatively related to employment growth and …