Berrospide, Jose M.; Meisenzahl, Ralf R. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015
Do firms use credit line drawdowns to finance investment? Using a unique dataset of 467 COMPUSTAT firms with credit … with theory, our results confirm that firms use drawdowns to sustain investment after an idiosyncratic liquidity shock … investment increased to 16 percent. The effect was even larger for smaller and financially constrained firms. We find only …