Do asymmetric information and leverage affect investment decisions?

dc.contributor.author Muhammad Munir Ahmad
dc.contributor.author Ahmed Imran Hunjra
dc.contributor.author Dilvin Taskin
dc.date FEB
dc.date.accessioned 2025-10-06T16:21:28Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.description.abstract We investigate the impact of asymmetric information on the investment decisions of firms and analyze the effect of asymmetric information on the over-investment and under-investment of firms. Further we examine the effect of leverage on the investment behavior of firms and check this association in the presence of asymmetric information. We extract data from DataStream of 280 non-financial firms listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange over the period of 2000 to 2018. We apply the Fixed Effect Model to analyze the data and System Generalized Method of Moments to check the robustness of the results. We find that asymmetric information negatively affects the investment decisions of firms. Due to asymmetric information investment decreases rapidly as compared to increase in investment. Further leverage is an important determinant of investment decisions and the presence of asymmetric information increases the adverse effect of leverage on the investment of firms.(c) 2021 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.qref.2021.05.001
dc.identifier.issn 1062-9769
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2021.05.001
dc.identifier.uri https://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/6898
dc.language.iso English
dc.publisher ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
dc.relation.ispartof The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
dc.source QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
dc.subject Asymmetric information, Investment, Overinvestment, Underinvestment, Leverage, Non -financial firms
dc.subject FREE CASH FLOW, FIRM INVESTMENT, FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS, CAPITAL STRUCTURE, OVER-INVESTMENT, CORPORATE-DEBT, AGENCY COSTS
dc.title Do asymmetric information and leverage affect investment decisions?
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