..., in their annual reports. Using an instrumented difference-in-differences design, I find that compliance with this initiative, evidenced by more disclosures of performance measures and commentaries relating to business operations and strategies, promotes intangible investments. My analysis of external and internal...

...Dave Baik (Young-Il); Clara Xiaoling Chen; David Godsell ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of board gender diversity (BGD) on investment outcomes. We identify variation in BGD by compiling, for the first time, a global catalog of 83 BGD interventions implemented in 59 countries between 1999...

...Charles G. McClure; Anastasia A. Zakolyukina ABSTRACT The wide-spread reporting of non-GAAP earnings suggests efficiency gains from doing so. By estimating a dynamic investment model, we examine the real implications of investors using both GAAP and non-GAAP earnings to value firms. When investors...

...Shannon Chen; Lisa De Simone; Michelle Hanlon; Rebecca Lester ABSTRACT We study whether innovation box tax incentives, which reduce tax rates on innovation-related income, are associated with increased fixed asset investment and employment. Using a stacked cohort difference-in-differences design...

...Ciao-Wei Chen; Maria Correia; Oktay Urcan ABSTRACT We examine the real effects of lease-capitalization rules (i.e., standards that require firms to capitalize finance leases) on corporate investment. We show that the introduction of these rules leads to a decrease in investment, which is more...

...Tae Wook Kim; Jing Li; Suil Pae ABSTRACT A firm manager is concerned about both the firm value and the market assessments of his abilities. When investing in a project, he has private knowledge of his project-related ability that interacts with the project investment, and his general ability...

...Zackery D. Fox; Martin Jacob; Jaron H. Wilde; Ryan J. Wilson ABSTRACT Amid growing globalization, many countries have offered tax incentives to attract corporate investment. Prior research studies the role such incentives play in firms' location and investment choices. However, we have limited...

... Recruiting and Research Camp, and the 2020 FARS Midyear Meeting. All errors remain my own. Oliver Binz, INSEAD, Department of Accounting and Control; Fontainebleau, France. In RBC models, macroeconomic uncertainty affects consumption and investment through real options whose value increases...

...Harald J. Amberger; Kevin S. Markle; David M. P. Samuel ABSTRACT Using a global sample of multinational corporations (MNCs) and their foreign subsidiaries, we find that repatriation taxes impair subsidiary-level investment efficiency. Consistent with internal agency conflicts between the central...

...Shane R. Stinson; Marcus M. Doxey; Timothy J. Rupert ABSTRACT In an online experiment, the immediate (Roth) versus deferred taxation of retirement income affects taxpayers' investment decisions such that tax-deferred plan investors under-adjust for future tax burdens and overestimate their future...

...Nemit Shroff ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) international inspection program on companies' financing and investing decisions. Difference-in-differences regression estimates suggest that companies respond to their auditor receiving...

...Brad A. Badertscher; Devin M. Shanthikumar; Siew Hong Teoh ABSTRACT We study how public firm misvaluation affects private peer firm investments. An economic competition hypothesis predicts a negative relation because misvaluation-induced new investment by public firms crowds out...

...Arthur G. Kraft; Rahul Vashishtha; Mohan Venkatachalam ABSTRACT Using the transition of U.S. firms from annual reporting to semi-annual reporting and then to quarterly reporting over the period 1950–1970, we provide evidence on the effects of increased reporting frequency on firms' investment...

...' investment. In contrast, I do not find an average increase in investment among the firms benefiting from MAP-21. Rather, I find that firms either hold pension funding relief on their balance sheets as liquid assets or pay out pension funding relief to shareholders. To the extent that managers increase...

...Tim Baldenius; Alexander A. Nezlobin; Igor Vaysman ABSTRACT In a dynamic setting with demand following a random process, we ask how investment and operating decisions can be delegated to a manager with unknown time preferences. Only the manager observes the demand realization in each period...

...Alvis K. Lo ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between accounting credibility and firms' ability to fund their investments. Theory suggests that credible reporting resulting from external audits enables firms to attract external funds needed for their investments. The tests exploit...

...Kristina Rennekamp; Kathy K. Rupar; Nicholas Seybert ABSTRACT This paper examines how the reversibility of the accounting effect of asset impairments affects managers' investment decisions. We conduct two experiments in which participants act as CEO of a multi-division electronics company...

...Robert M. Bowen; Shivaram Rajgopal; Mohan Venkatachalam ABSTRACT We examine (1) whether the accounting, governance, and investing practices of Berkshire Hathaway investees are consistent with Warren Buffett's public statements on what constitutes good accounting, governance, and investing...

...Nemit Shroff; Rodrigo S. Verdi; Gwen Yu ABSTRACT This paper examines how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions of foreign subsidiaries...

...Theodore H. Goodman; Monica Neamtiu; Nemit Shroff; Hal D. White ABSTRACT Corporate investment decisions require managers to forecast expected future cash flows from potential investments. Although these forecasts are a critical component of successful investing, they are not directly observable...