Investment decisions require trading off current expenditures against future revenues. If revenues extend far enough … into the future, the executives responsible for designing long-run investment policy may no longer be in office by the time … investments during their last years in office. In our empirical work, however, we find that investment expenditures on research …

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 …

This paper examines the link between managerial overconfidence, conservative accounting and investment. Using Japanese … firm data, we estimate a q investment model incorporating real options effects. Consistent with prior studies, we find that … managerial overconfidence increases investment--cash flow sensitivity. On the other hand, we find mixed results regarding the …