We explore how risks propagate through product market input-output networks by constructing degree centrality measures for customer and supplier industries. We find central supplier industries have higher market risks than central customer industries and posit that the provision of trade credit...

The paper examines whether firms are able to use acquisitions to ease their financial constraints. The results show that acquisitions do ease financing constraints for constrained acquirers. Relative to unconstrained acquires, financially constrained firms are more likely to use undervalued...

We explore the importance of cash for shaping rivalry outside the product domain by studying its implications for firms defending against patent litigation by rivals. War chests of cash can make firms more formidable targets, reducing rivals' expected gains from litigation. However, cash...

This paper studies the ability of firms to impact its own financial constraint status. First, we study the persistence of firms' financial constraint status and show that this changes across time. Next, we find that diversified firms are less financially constrained than single segment firms....