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Knowing me, knowing you? : similarity to the CEO and fund manager's investment decisions
Jaspersen, Stefan; Limbach, Peter - 2017 - This draft: June 2017
We study whether investors' demographic similarity to CEOs affects their investment decisions. Mutual fund managers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664181
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The wealth and asset holdings of US-born and foreign-born housholds : evidence from SIPP data
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2002
SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times that of foreign-born singles. Further, there...
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The wealth and asset holdings of U.S.-born and foreign-born households : evidence from SIPP data
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268941
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Investment and Uncertainty with Time to Build : Evidence from U.S. Copper Mining
Marmer, Vadim - 2016
The standard real-options model predicts that increased uncertainty discourages investment. When projects are large and … take time to build, however, this prediction can be reversed. We investigate the investment/uncertainty relationship …. We find that, in this market, greater uncertainty encourages investment and lowers the price thresholds for many mines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976944
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Returns to private equity : idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of … higher returns to equity. Exposure to idiosyncratic risk is measured as the share of the owner’s net worth invested in the … and significant influence of exposure to idiosyncratic risk. This paper improves our understanding of returns to private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922530
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External factors affecting investment decisions of companies
Bialowolski, Piotr; Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota - 2013
In this paper we attempt to investigate the importance of certain external factors on the investment decision among … Polish companies. With the use of data from the tailored made Survey on Receivables we examine factors influencing investment … finally we determine the relative influence of these factors on the actual investment reductions. The results showed that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009789957
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External factors affecting investment decisions of companies
Bialowolski, Piotr; Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota - 2014
In this paper, we attempt to investigate the importance of certain external factors on the investment decisions made by … investment decisions of companies in Poland; (2) assess the relation between branch, company size and investment factors; (3 …) evaluate the importance of the investment factors; and (4) determine the relative influence of these factors on the company …
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Political Capital : Corporate Connections and Stock Investments in the U.S. Congress, 2004-2008
Eggers, Andrew C. - 2014
Recent research suggests that, public perceptions notwithstanding, members of Congress are rather mediocre investors. Why do the consummate political insiders fail to profit as investors? We consider various explanations that pertain to members' political relationships to public firms. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067058
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Are Stock Buybacks Crowding Out Real Investment? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firms
Turco, Enrico Maria - 2021
We investigate the role of financialization in the decline of investment for U.S. non-financial firms from 1992 - 2017 … to divert resources from real investment to share repurchases to increase stock prices. Using micro-data from U.S. firms … repurchases on capital investment; (ii) to examine the interaction between stock-based CEO pay and the likelihood of share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219547
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A Model of Intangible Capital
Crouzet, Nicolas; Eberly, Janice C.; Eisfeldt, Andrea L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, scope, and investment decisions, and we outline their connection to recent macroeconomic and financial trends in the US …
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