Does corporate investment efficiency affect corporate disclosure practices?

Does Overconfidence Affect Corporate Investment? CEO Overconfidence Measures Revisited

This article presents the growing research area of Behavioural Corporate Finance in the context of one specific example: distortions in corporate investment due to CEO overconfidence. We first review the relevant psychology and experimental evidence on overconfidence. We then summarise the results of Malmendier and Tate (2005a) on the impact of overconfidence on corporate investment. We present...

How Does Government Borrowing Affect Corporate Financing and Investment ?

Using a novel dataset of accounting and market information that spans most publicly traded nonfinancial firms over the last century, we show that U.S. federal government debt issuance significantly affects corporate financial policies and balance sheets through its impact on investors’ portfolio allocations and the relative pricing of different assets. Government debt is strongly negatively cor...

Does auditor regulatory oversight affect corporate financing and investment decisions?

This paper examines the real effects of auditor regulatory oversight on companies’ financing and investing policies. Using the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOBs) international inspection program as a setting to generate within-country variation in auditor oversight, I find that companies respond to the increase in auditor oversight by issuing additional external capital amount...

Corporate aggregate disclosure practices in Jordan

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Do Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment?