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 …