This study comprehensively reexamines the debate over behavioral and rational explanations for the investment effect in an updated sample. We closely follow the previous literature and provide several differences. All our tests include five prominent measures of corporate investment and...

We simulate results from a simple real options model to provide insight into the value-growth stock return anomaly. In our model, firms possess either single ("value" firm) or multiple ("growth" firm) investment opportunities. Our model predicts that growth firms: (1) invest sooner, (2) exhibit...