We explore whether managerial short-termism affects investment decisions of public firms by comparing how R&D investment of public and private firms responds to growth opportunities with a sample of Taiwan firms in the manufacturing industry over the period 1989-2014. Our results show that public firms generally exhibit low investment sensitivity to growth opportunities regardless of their reliance on external finance. Moreover, among the firms less reliant on external finance, public firms exhibit significantly lower investment sensitivity than private ones. These results all point toward public firms' managerial short-termism.
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