...Aaron S. Nelson Purpose This study investigates how the quality of internal information within a firm impacts its external stakeholders, focusing on the investment behaviors of suppliers. It aims to determine whether higher-quality demand information from a customer reduces uncertainty to increase...

.... This effect appears to be driven by lower performance volatility and increased investment in research and development and brand capital. Design/methodology/approach Our sample comprises all non-financial, non-utility firms at the intersection of CRSP and Compustat between 1998 to 2022. We run...

... by firms in covenant default and, third, to provide an estimate of the cost to creditors of managerial risk-shifting. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines the relationship between market volatility and investment of financially distressed firms in a real options framework. The debt is taken...

...Amanjot Singh Purpose This study examines the relationship between oil price uncertainty (OPU) and corporate inventory investments using a sample of 6,072 USA manufacturing firms from 1992 to 2019. Design/methodology/approach The author's study employs a panel dataset to examine...

... framework concerning corporate outcomes results in theoretical fragmentation in the empirical CEO literature, where prior studies examined a myriad of corporate outcomes, including investment decisions, risk-taking, operating strategy, innovation, M&As, debt leverage, dividend policy, CSR, tax avoidance...

...Kewal Singh; Anoop Singh; Puneet Prakash Purpose This paper aims to investigate the explanatory power of the Fama-French five-factor model and compares it to the other asset pricing models. In addition, the paper examines the contributions of two additional factors: profitability and investment...

... decomposition methodology to estimate the smoothness of corporate payout in a common empirical framework that includes net income, and debt and investment policies. Findings Overall, the empirical findings support recently proposed theories of joint determination of corporate payout behavior with debt...

..., such as investment and debt policies. Findings The findings support recent corporate governance theory, which asserts that payout policy is influenced by investment and debt policies, and cannot be determined independently. Furthermore, the authors find that geographic/cultural/institutional variation influence...

... between CEO inside debt ratios and tangible assets (i.e. asset tangibility, liquidation value, and fixed asset investment). Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) contemporaneous and lead-lag regression analyses. They also use two-stage least-square (2SLS...

...Vicente Lima Crisóstomo; Félix Javier López Iturriaga; Eleuterio Vallelado González Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to verify the existence of financial constraints for investment in Brazil, an emerging market with growing international visibility. Design/methodology/approach – Using...