flows to fund investment), and that the sensitivity of investment to internal cash flows is higher for firms that report …, likely the engine for innovation in the coming years in China, are especially financially constrained, due perhaps to the …-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small' privatization program in China. Our empirical results suggest that government connections play an important role in explaining …

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 …

A fundamental tenet of investment theory and the traditional theory of monetary policy transmission is that investment …, at best, for a substantial interest-rate effect on investment. In this paper, we examine the sensitivity of investment … management as well as those that do not expect to borrow over the coming year. Perhaps more surprisingly, we find that investment …

portfolio size and degree of risk aversion of potential investors, the ability to borrow, and the hedging opportunities provided …

"correlation breakdown." As a result, risk managers worry that their hedges will be useless when they are most needed, namely …. We make this point analytically, by way of several numerical examples, and via an empirical illustration. ; But, risk …

Risk management information systems are designed to overcome the problem of aggregating data across diverse trading … units. The design of an information system depends on the risk measurement methodology that a firm chooses. Inherent in the … design of both a risk management information system and a risk measurement methodology is a tradeoff between the accuracy of …

as the basis for estimates of the appropriate absolute level of economic capital allocations for portfolio credit risk …