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Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis

Barry, John W.; Campello, Murillo; Graham, John R.; Ma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...

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Economic Growth and Bank Innovation

Gorton, Gary; He, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Based on archival and survey data we show that the maturity of U.S. business loans has been continuously increasing since the mid-1930s when banks invented the term loan. Concurrently, bank innovation first involved the invention of credit analysis and covenant design. Later, bank innovation...

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Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit : Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...

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Falling Rates and Rising Superstars

Kroen, Thomas; Liu, Ernest; Mian, Atif; Sufi, Amir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Do low interest rates contribute to the rise in market concentration? Using data on firm financials and high frequency monetary policy shocks, we find that falling interest rates disproportionately benefit industry leaders, especially when the initial interest rate is already low. Falling rates...

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Young Firms, Old Capital

Ma, Song; Murfin, Justin; Pratt, Ryan D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Across a broad range of equipment types and industries, we document a pattern of local capital reallocation from older firms to younger firms. Start-ups purchase a disproportionate share of old physical capital previously owned by more mature firms. The evidence is consistent with financial...

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Indirect Effects of Access to Finance

Cai, Jing; Szeidl, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We created experimental variation across local markets in China in the share of firms having access to a new loan product, to measure the direct and indirect effects of access to finance. We find that: (1) Access to finance had a large positive direct effect on the performance of treated firms....

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Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?

Boar, Corina; Gorea, Denis; Midrigan, Virgiliu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use micro data from Orbis on firm level balance sheets and income statements to document that accounting returns for … financial returns to saving. The model matches the evidence on accounting returns and predicts that financial returns to saving … are half as large and dispersed as accounting returns. Financial returns mostly reflect risk, as opposed to collateral …

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Have U.S. Corporations Grown Financially Weak?

Taggart, Robert A, Jr - 1984

The feelingis widespread that the financial strength of U.S. corporations has eroded over the past twenty years. This trend is often blamed on some combination of the tax system, inflation and overly optimistic assessments of business risk.This paper examines recent corporate financing...

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Why Has the U.S. Financial Sector Grown so Much? The Role of Corporate Finance

Philippon, Thomas - 2007

The share of finance in U.S. GDP has been multiplied by more than three over the postwar period. I argue, using evidence and theory, that corporate finance is a key factor behind this evolution. Inside the finance industry, credit intermediation and corporate finance are more important than...

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Firm-Specific Resources, Financial-Market Development and the Growth of U.S. Multinationals

Feinberg, Susan - 2002

We study the resource allocation decisions of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs). We examine how established MNCs grow across countries and how firm-specific resources and host country financial-market development influence MNC growth. We find evidence of intra-firm trade-offs to growth in...

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