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We examine firms' simultaneous choice of investment, debt financing and liquidity in a large sample of US corporates between 1980 and 2014. We partition the sample according to the firms' financial constraints and their needs to hedge against future shortfalls in operating income. In contrast to...
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equity. In contrast, agency theory predicts that distressed firm managers have strong self-interests to finance even … distressed firm managers subsidize losing operations. These findings collectively suggest that agency theory better predicts …
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theory of capital structure. Yet, we show that this negative relationship is weak in case of financially constrained firms …
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Motivated by the literature on the finance–growth nexus, this paper explores the mechanisms through which finance affects corporate investments and capital accumulation. We separate the effects of financial conditions from those of financial development. Based on a sample of firms from five...
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We test whether firms with a single bank are better shielded from loss of credit and investment cuts in periods of adverse cash flow shocks than firms with multiple bank relationships. Our estimates of the cash flow sensitivity of investment show that both types of firms are equally subject to...
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