While academic and practitioner literature has advocated the use of real options in firms' long-term investment appraisal processes, few studies have examined the extent to which real options are incorporated into decisions when they are made available. We experimentally examine supervising...

Mutual fund holdings data reveal a significant impact of mutual funds on the capital expenditures ("CapEx'') of their portfolio companies. Following the shock to mutual fund ownership caused by the 2003 scandal, during which 25 fund families experienced significant outflows of capital, firms...

This article analyzes the role of information in building reputation in an investment/trust game. The model allows for information asymmetry in a finitely repeated sender-receiver game and solves for sequential equilibrium to show that if there are some trustworthy managers who always disclose...

Empirical research documents that overconfidence has a strong impact on investment decision. In this experimental study using a within-subject design and an asset allocation problem, we detail this relationship by introducing a stage of judgment (initial knowledge about the assets to invest in)...

We study the effect of information aggregation on individual investors' risk-taking behavior in two experiments, each having three different treatments. Subjects in the control group were given hypothetical returns for both the risk-free and the risky asset. Subjects in the account group were...

Real options approach is a method of evaluating and managing strategic investments decisions in an uncertain business environment. Current era is characterized by increased uncertainty because of changed market conditions, globalization, increased competition, emerging technologies etc. The...

All investors thrive to make their investments safe and vies to make their investments productive so the process making these investments decision needs to be future oriented. The fear of uncertainty and the risk factors influence the investment decisions of the investors and sometimes cognitive...

Using a unique panel data set of private German firms over the period 2002 to 2013 we analyze the relation between managerial overconfidence and investment policy in small and medium-sized firms. We construct direct estimates of managerial overconfidence that are based on sales forecasts. We...