The effect of uncertainty on equilibrium wage rates causes uncertainty to have a negative impact on marginal q. In turn, uncertainty reduces corporate investment and employment. Using a novel firm-level measure of cash flow uncertainty, we find empirically that uncertainty has a strong negative...

A generalized version of the standard neoclassical investment model can explain the relatively high equity prices in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the US corporate nonfinancial and NASDAQ sectors along with the relatively low prices before and after this period. Stock returns predicted by...

As firms have more assets in place, more of management's limited attention is focused on managing assets in place rather than developing new growth options. Consequently, as firms grow older, they have fewer growth options and a lower ability to generate new growth options. This simple theory...

This paper documents differences between the Q-sensitivity of investment of stand-alone firms and unrelated segments of conglomerate firms. Unrelated segments exhibit lower Q-sensitivity of investment than stand-alone firms. This fact is driven by unrelated segments of conglomerate firms that...

Investment of U.S. firms responds asymmetrically to Tobin's Q: investment of established firms -- 'intensive' investment -- reacts negatively to Q whereas investment of new firms -- 'extensive' investment -- responds positively and elastically to Q. This asymmetry, we argue, reflects a...

This paper investigated the influences of Free Cash Flow, Tobin's q, and Price-earnings ratio on the investment decisions by using North American monthly data from January 2000 to March 2017. Correlation Analysis and three Generalized Linear Models (GLM) are employed in this empirical research....

Alliances establish a private channel of communication between allied firms in which managers can obtain useful information about future investment opportunities. I examine whether this feature of alliances hinders the market's ability to correctly assess the investment opportunities of firms in...

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...

This paper extends the Q-theory of investment to capital goods with arbitrary efficiency profiles. Under the assumption of geometric economic depreciation employed by the traditional Q-theory, a firm's replacement cost of assets-in-place is independent of their vintage composition and can be...