This paper examines the interaction between investment and financing decisions of a firm using a real options approach. The firm is endowed with a perpetual option to invest in a project at any time by incurring an irreversible investment cost at that instant. The amount of the irreversible investment cost is directly related to the intensity of investment that is endogenously chosen by the fir...

XBRL has the ability to provide financial statements with improved data information quality (DIQ). Contextual and representational DIQ are relevant to perceptual and decision factors of nonprofessional investors when they interact with XBRL-based financial statements and make investment decisions. The author posits that XBRL-based financial statements with improved contextual and representation...

Credit constraints and a need to invest in host country-specific human capital may lead immigrant couples to adopt a family investment strategy. Researchers attempting to evaluate this family investment hypothesis, however, face severe data limitations, because standard data sources often identify the foreign born, but typically provide no information about the migrating unit or the immigration...

This paper focuses attention on specific aspects of entrepreneurial decisions relating to investment, both in the total fixed investments and plant & machinery (separately). Demand and financial factors, internal and external, are considered in the investment analysis. Finally the influence of determinants of fixed investment and investment plans are examined in Electric Power industry in India...

This paper examines the effect of economic policy uncertainty and its components on firm-level investment. It is found that economic policy uncertainty in interaction with firm-level uncertainty depresses firms’ investment decisions. When firms are in doubt about costs of doing business due to possible changes in regulation, cost of health care and taxes, they become more guarded with investmen...

T study examines whether the framing mode (narrow versus broad) influences the stock investment decisions of individual investors. Motivated by the experimental evidence, which suggests that separate decisions are more likely to be narrowly framed than simultaneous decisions, we propose trade clustering as a proxy for narrow framing. Using this framing proxy, we show that investors who execute ...

We examine which tax allocation system leads to more severe distortions with respect to locational investment decisions. We consider separate accounting (SA) and formula apportionment (FA). The effects of both systems have been hotly debated in Europe in the past years. The reason is that the EU Member States are striving to implement a common European tax system that would lead to a switch fro...

Description Liberalised electricity markets represent a delicate equilibrium between regulatory targets to keep prices at acceptable levels and keeping prices high enough to ensure adequate return on investment for generation companies. From the viewpoint of the generation company, these capacity investment decisions are highly complex. Electricity prices are volatile which, instead of a guaran...