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 …

In this study, we analyse the effect of financial uncertainty on corporate investment using firm-level panel data from … the Republic of Korea. We find that financial uncertainty has a significant negative effect on corporate investment, and … constraints and investment irreversibility amplify the negative effect of uncertainty. The inverted U-shaped curve of the …

distressed if it breached the minimum capital requirements set by law. The results demonstrate that all the investment …-related factors matter for financial distress, with timing, intensity, sector, and type of investment all playing a role. Furthermore …, the data seem to suggest that investment in tangibles is more cycle-sensitive for the transport and construction and real …

Investment cash flow sensitivity constitutes one important block of the corporate financial literature. While it is … the investment cash flow sensitivity among panel data of American industrial firms during 1999-2010. Using Q-model of … investment (Tobin, 1969), we construct and introduce a proxy of managerial optimism following Malmendier and Tate (2005a) to show …

investment cash flow sensitivity and various CEO characteristics in either the existence or inexistence of managerial optimism …. Using a Q-investment model and departing from a sample of 475 annual observations, our results highlight that CEO …'s financial education, CEO's ownership and their optimism bias can explain distortions in corporate investment policy since they …

The study investigates the role of financial development in boosting the investment efficiency of firms' investments in … concludes that firms suffering from under- (over-) investment problem due to financing constraints (agency problem), are more … likely to increase (decrease) their investment' in the response of underlying financial development in the economy. This …

Development economists have enjoined Africans to leverage on remittance as their main source of investment financing …'s remittance and investment financing and the modulating effect of the investment climate in this relation on a panel of 28 sub … following empirical findings were established. First, the theoretical supposition underpinning the assumption in investment …

corporate investment process. This research shows first that callable convertibles are used to finance investment projects … particularly by American firms which may exercise new investment options to improve poor financial performance. Secondly, the same … firms. Thirdly, the research results do not provide evidence that Asian enterprises use callable convertibles for investment …

This research provides new evidence on financing constraints on corporate fixed investment by emphasizing the role of … the cash holdings variable appears to be negative in the fixed-investment regression, suggesting that when firms face …