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Do Short-Term Objectives Lead to Under- or Overinvestment in Long-Term Projects?

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  • Bebchuk, Lucian Arye
  • Stole, Lars A

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The authors examine managerial investment decisions in the presence of imperfect information and short-term managerial objectives. Prior research has argued that such an environment induces managers to underinvest in long-run projects. The authors show that short-term objectives and imperfect information may also lead to overinvestment and they identify how the direction of the distortion depends upon the type of informational imperfection present. When investors cannot observe the level of investment in the long-run project, suboptimal investment will be induced. When investors can observe investment but not its productivity, however, overinvestment will occur. Copyright 1993 by American Finance Association.

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  • Bebchuk, Lucian Arye & Stole, Lars A, 1993. "Do Short-Term Objectives Lead to Under- or Overinvestment in Long-Term Projects?," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 48(2), pages 719-729, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jfinan:v:48:y:1993:i:2:p:719-29
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