negative abnormal capital investment/return relation is shown to be stronger for firms that have greater investment discretion … to the empire building implications of increased investment expenditures. Although firms that increase capital … investments tend to have high past returns and often issue equity, the negative abnormal capital investment/return relation is …

firm characteristics - Tobin's Q, past investment, earnings-price ratios, market betas, and idiosyncratic volatility of … returns by aggregate investment and valuation ratios; and v) a downward sloping term structure of risk premia for dividend … strips. Our model delivers testable predictions about the behavior of firm-level real variables - investment and output …

The arrival of new, unfamiliar, investment opportunities is often associated with "exuberant" movements in asset prices … signals about the profitability of the new investment opportunities, and vice versa. In this paper, we study how such …

We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …

, profitability, investment, and stock returns for firms in the 'crisis' country as well as competitors in the rest of the world … capital investment and stock returns (and therefore expected long-run output and profits) is determined by capital …

quarters of the variation in real annual aggregate investment growth between 1948 and 1993. The negative correlation of … contemporaneous investment and stock returns is explained by the negative correlation of planned investment and subsequent stock … returns. Unexpected revisions to aggregate investment (actual minus plan) within a year are essentially unrelated to current …