We examine the effect of Top Management Team (TMT) professional finance experience on firm investment efficiency. Top managers with a career background in finance help reduce deviations of investment from the level warranted by firm fundamentals. Reductions in investment inefficiencies are...

This paper develops a model to investigate the interaction between collective decision-making in voting and financial speculation. Protesting voters demand policy reforms by voting against the incumbent, but too many opposing votes result in an unfavorable outcome --- political regime change....