Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of managerial optimism on corporate investment regarding … often overconfident an effort is made to highlight the effect of this psychological bias on managerial investment decision … – making. Design/methodology/approach: The research methodology is based on the approach that the investment-cash flow …

We examine firms' simultaneous choice of investment, debt financing and liquidity in a large sample of US corporates … affect the corporate decisions of unconstrained firms more strongly than those of constrained firms. Investment-cash flow … sensitivities are particularly intense for unconstrained firms with high hedging needs. Investment opportunities (as proxied by Q …

In China, between 2006 and 2013, local public debt crowded out the investment of private firms by tightening their … funding constraints, while leaving state-owned firms' investment unaffected. We establish this result using a purpose …-built dataset for Chinese local public debt. Private firms invest less in cities with more public debt, the reduction in investment …

towards banks contracts the amount and maturity of corporate debt and leads firms to slow investment and forego growth …