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We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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Well-functioning markets allocate assets to owners that improve firms' management and performance. We study the effects of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with farmers and seasonal workers is important and that has seen many ownership...
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accumulation, and capital budgeting …
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We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We …
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Using firm-level administrative tax data on the 43% of business liabilities in the United States tied to privately held firms, we document dramatic reductions in leverage since the Great Recession. Leverage for the average private firm fell fifteen percent between 2004 and 2018. In contrast,...
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equilibrium model shows that tax cuts make capital more productive and spur borrowing. Tax cuts also produce more distant default …
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-for-sale securities, unhedged securities, and banks that must include unrealized gains and losses in their regulatory capital. A … more banks are required to adjust their regulatory capital for unrealized value changes of securities …
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crowding-in of private credit, appear to reflect resolving uncertainty about repair. We do not find capital reallocation away …
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' saving and capital misallocation. We first document the features of the data in terms of firm dynamics and debt financing … firms have lower leverage, face higher interest rates, and operate with a higher marginal product of capital. We then … aggregate firms' saving and investment and around 50 percent of the dispersion in the marginal product of capital within private …
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