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Overinvestment in College Training?

The Journal of Human Resources, 1980
When producers are uncertain or have imperfect information about the profitability of adopting new technology, their adoption behavior depends on the endowment of human capital and the investment in adoption information.
Eli Schwartz, Robert Thornton
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The impact of national culture on overinvestment

International Journal of Revenue Management, 2021
Naima Lassoued, Issam Ben Osman
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Holdups and overinvestment in capital markets

Journal of Economic Theory, 2014
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Overinvestment and fraud

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008
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Commitment to overinvest and price informativeness [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
A fundamental role of ficial markets is to gather information on firms' investment opportunities, and so help guide investment decisions in the real sector. In this paper we study the incentives for informaton production when prices perform this allocational role.
Dow, J, Goldstein, I, Guembel, A
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Buildings and Budgets: The Overinvestment Crisis

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 1978
Over the last ten years, American colleges and universities have spent over $400 billion on their physical plants despite the fact that student enrollments have continued to decline. The increase in maintenance and energy costs has caused a financial strain, forcing cutbacks in vital ingredients of education: research, course offerings, student ...
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Why Has China Overinvested in Coal Power?

The Energy Journal, 2021
In spite of ambitious investments by the Chinese government in renewable energy sources, the country’s investment in coal power accelerated in recent years, raising concerns of massive overcapacity and undermining the central policy goal of promoting cleaner energy.
Ren, M, Branstetter, LG, Kovak, BK, Armanios, DE, Yuan, J   +4 more
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Overinvestment in College Training?

The Journal of Human Resources, 1975
The college job market underwent an unprecedented downturn in the 1 970s when the earnings of graduates relative to other workers, the rate of return to investing in higher education, and employment opportunities dropped sharply, especially for new graduates.
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Managerial Private Benefits and Overinvestment

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2014
According to agency theory, we hypothesize that underpayment of top management motivates management to overinvest. Using a sample of Chinese-listed companies for the period 2005-10, we assess the effect of managerial compensation on overinvestment and the effect of overinvestment on managerial private benefits, including future compensation and ...
Zhan Lei, Cai Mingchao, Yaoyao Wang, Jing Yu   +3 more
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Which Takeover Targets Overinvest?

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1996
Existing research finds little evidence of overinvestment by successfully acquired targets. This paper shows how samples drawn from completed takeovers are biased against finding overinvestment and documents evidence of overinvestment in targets that use a highly lever? aged transaction to avoid a takeover.
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