We investigate how product market competition jointly affects specific corporate investment and financing behavior … sell off assets and/or investments. The first three actions are financing decisions while the last two are investment … product market competition are analyzed. The evidence shows that product market competition does affect both investment and …

rates are positively related to investment opportunities, R&D intensity, multinational status, and whether firms are located …

We show how directors can set the strength of a firm's anti-takeover provisions in order to influence the investment …-timing decision of a future empire-building CEO. The prospect of future hostile takeover attempts, which terminate the CEO's control … benefits if successful, affects the CEO's willingness to invest in low-value projects. If anti-takeover defenses are too strong …

attention. This paper fills that gap by asking how patent acquisitions interact with firm investment policy. I find that patent … more technological expertise and investment opportunities acquire more patents. Patent sales are the dominant type of … contract and maximize investment incentives; patent licenses frequently contain royalties, which induce under-investment …

We study the time-varying effects of Tobin's q and cash flow on investment dynamics in the USA using a vector … variation over time of the response of investment to shocks in both variables. The time-varying sensitivity of investment to a … show that, although Tobin's q and cash flow are complementary sources of information for investment decisions, their …

This paper investigates the financial determinants of research and development (R&D) investment in Asia, where …&D investment to changes in cash flow, indicating reliance on internal financing of R&D and financially constrained firms, and a … cash flow sensitivity of R&D investment, suggesting more stable funding of innovation. Overall, there does not seem to be …

capital investment, debt issuance reduction, and acquisitions of new external technologies. Internal investments in R&D, on …