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The effects of sentiment should be strongest during times of heightened valuation uncertainty. As such, we document a … significant amplifying role for market uncertainty in the relation between sentiment and aggregate investment. A one …-standard-deviation increase in uncertainty more than doubles the effect of sentiment on investment. Moreover, allowing uncertainty …
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Many economic variables of interest exhibit a tendency to revert to predictable long-run levels. However, mean reverting processes are rarely used in investment models in the literature. In most models, geometric Brownian motion processes are used for tractability. In this paper, a firm's entry...
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This paper deals with capital budgeting decisions under uncertainty. We present an Aggregate Return On Investment (AROI …
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-worst strategy in a discounted payback period framework is applied to examine the effect of uncertainty on the time horizon and … investment. The model shows that increasing uncertainty will reduce the time horizon as well as investment. Moreover, the …
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financial frictions arising from asymmetric information, proxied by firms? liquidity and degree of uncertainty. Measures of … intrinsic and extrinsic uncertainty are derived from firms? daily stock returns and S&P 500 index returns along with a CAPM …. Financial frictions captured by interactions between firms? cash flow and both intrinsic and CAPM-based measures of uncertainty …
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financial frictions arising from asymmetric information, proxied by firms' liquidity and degree of uncertainty. Measures of … intrinsic and extrinsic uncertainty are derived from firms' daily stock returns and S&P 500 index returns along with a CAPM …. Financial frictions captured by interactions between firms' cash flow and both intrinsic and CAPM-based measures of uncertainty …
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We investigate the analytical and empirical linkages between cash flow, uncertainty and firms' capital investment … behavior. Our empirical approach constructs measures of own- and market-specific uncertainty from firms' daily stock returns … important firm-specific variables, uncertainty is an important determinant of firms' investment behavior. Depending on the …
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We investigate the impact of measures of uncertainty on firms' capital investment behavior using a panel of U.S. firms …-based uncertainty has a positive impact. …
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We study the interactions of banks and ?rms within a leverage cycle to understand how capacity utilisation and capital … investment interact with funding costs, leverage by banks and ?rms, and liquidity. We show in a simulation study that when ?rms … levels, the real economy cycles around a leverage cycle. …
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This paper considers the effect of corruption on the effciency of capital investment. Using firm-level level data from the World Bank enterprise surveys, covering 90 developing and transition economies, we consider whether the cost of informal bribe payments distorts the efficient allocation of...
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