A Vicious Cycle of Manias, Crashes and Asymmetric Policy Responses - An Overinvestment View [PDF]
The business cycles theories of Wicksell (1898), Schumpeter (1912), Mises (1912), Hayek (1929, 1935) and Minsky (1986, 1992) explain business cycles by distorted prices on capital markets, buoyant credit expansion and overinvestment.
Hoffmann, Andreas, Schnabl, Gunther
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Corporate Management of Environmental, Social, and Governance Ratings and Rating Divergence
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 4784-4801, May 2026.ABSTRACT As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings increasingly influence investment and corporate decision‐making, companies face growing pressure to manage their ESG performance strategically. This study examines how firms navigate the fragmented ESG rating landscape marked by significant agency divergence. Based on a multiple‐case study
Selina Hauch
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Love of the Job: What It Is, How to Measure It, and Why It Matters for Work Outcomes
Human Resource Management, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 925-948, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Employee retention, motivation, performance, and well‐being remain enduring priorities in human resource management, yet existing constructs such as engagement, commitment, and satisfaction do not fully capture the depth of emotional attachment that some employees feel towards their jobs.
Michelle Inness +8 more
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Nursing Open, Volume 13, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Aim This study explored the occupational hazards faced by nurses in a district hospital in Ghana, analysed their psychological outcomes, and examined how emotional labour mediates nurses' behaviour in patient care. Design A focused ethnographic study.
Perpetual N. B. Kodom +2 more
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Investment spending in the Netherlands: Assymmetric information or managerial discretion?. [PDF]
Information; Investment;
De Jong, A, Degryse, Hans
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Share Repurchases and Investment Policies
Financial Review, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 555-575, May 2026.ABSTRACT Our study examines the claim that share repurchases lead to reductions in real investments. Repurchase opponents argue that managers forego valuable investments to conduct opportunistic repurchases, while proponents argue that repurchases return excess cash to shareholders.
Paul Brockman +2 more
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Endogenous Uncertainty: Does Investment Inefficiency Contributes to Uncertainty?
Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan PerbankanWe investigate the endogenous relationship between firm-level investments and macro-level uncertainty for U.S publicly listed firms from 1996 Q1 to 2019 Q4. Based on the Vector AutoRegressive analysis, we learn that underinvestment tends to increase news-
Rita Juliana +3 more
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COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF FOOD-PROCESSING COOPERATIVES AND INVESTOR-OWNED FIRMS [PDF]
Agribusiness,
Lerman, Zvi, Parliament, Claudia
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Investment and Internal Finance: Asymmetric Information or Managerial Discretion? [PDF]
This paper examines the relation between cash-flow availability and investment spending in theNetherlands. In particular, we are interested whether managerial discretion and/or asymmetricinformation drive the positive relation between cash-flow and ...
Degryse, H., Jong, A. de
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Investment Spending in the Netherlands: The Impact of Liquidity and Corporate Governance [PDF]
This paper examines the relation between cash flow, corporate governance and fixed-investment spending. In perfect capital markets we expect no systematic relationship.
Degryse, H.A., Jong, A. de
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