This paper theoretically investigates the effect of uncertainty about future investment on expected stock returns … explain the value premium. Second, we investigate how uncertainty about investment affects expected stock returns. Based on … the closed-form solution in our framework, we suggest that less uncertainty about investment induces lower expected stock …

investment irreversibility amplify the negative effect of uncertainty. The inverted U-shaped curve of the uncertainty effect …In this paper, we analyze the effect of financial uncertainty on corporate investment using firm-level panel data from … the Republic of Korea. We find that financial uncertainty has a significant negative effect on corporate investment, and …

constraints and investment irreversibility amplify the negative effect of uncertainty. The inverted U-shaped curve of the …In this study, we analyse the effect of financial uncertainty on corporate investment using firm-level panel data from … the Republic of Korea. We find that financial uncertainty has a significant negative effect on corporate investment, and …

investment and expected returns. In imperfectly competitive industries, a firm's exposure to systematic risk is jointly affected … by its own investment strategy and the investment strategies of its industry peers, such that the dynamics of its …

Using a news-based index of geopolitical risk (GPR), we document a strong negative relationship between firm …-level corporate investment and GPR. When the GPR index doubles, investment rate in the next quarter declines by 14% of its sample mean …. The effect is more pronounced for firms with more irreversible investment or higher market power, confirming the real …

dispersion of idiosyncratic investment returns. An increase in uncertainty delays cross-border flows to the affected country. Yet …This paper studies the impact of uncertainty on cross-border investments. We build a data set of firm-level outward … Foreign Direct Investments between 2000 and 2015. We create a time and country varying measure of uncertainty based on the …