We investigate the impact of debt on a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms’ capital investment behavior as the underlying firm-specific and market-level uncertainty changes. Our estimates show that the influence of leverage on capital investment may be stimulating or mitigating depending on the effects of uncertainty.

We investigate the impact of measures of uncertainty on firms’ capital investment behavior using a panel of U.S. firms. Increases in firmspecific and CAPM -based measures have a significant negative effect on investment spending, while market-based uncertainty has a positive impact.

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F23 H25 Keywords: Corporate taxation International profit shifting Real options FDI The relation between taxation states and foreign direct investment (FDI) has been studied from several perspectives and with states at different levels of development. Most previous studies, however, have only considered the impact of tax level on FDI volume. This paper ...

Financial factors and ownership structure are both part of the determinants of corporate R&D investment. Considering listed firms in the R&D intensive industries during the 2000s, this paper examines whether financial factors and ownership structure explain R&D investment in Japan. Following the methodology of Brown et al. (2009), which extends the dynamic investment model of Bond and Maghir (1...

Does short selling help or hinder disciplining managerial behavior? We examine managerial investment decision in a model with informed short-selling and short-term managerial incentives and show that short selling can cause firms to overinvest. The overinvestment problem is more severe for managers with stronger short-term incentives and for firms that lack quality investment opportunities. Emp...