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This paper finds that, concurrent with the rapid growing index investment in commodities markets since early 2000s …
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Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding" is the broad geographic dispersion of investors in small, early-stage projects. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We examine a crowdfunding setting...
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To study the long-run effect of dividend taxation on aggregate capital accumulation, we build a dynamic general equilibrium model in which there is a continuum of firms subject to idiosyncratic productivity shocks. We find that a dividend tax cut raises aggregate productivity by reducing the...
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We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …
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research that uses cross-sectional differences in firm behavior to test for financing constraints on investment. This reply … of internal finance. Second, the KZ regression results (lower sensitivity of investment to cash flow for firms classified …
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We provide new evidence on how monetary policy affects investment and firm finance in the United States and the United … conditioning on size, asset growth, Tobin's Q, leverage or liquidity - and drive the response of aggregate investment. Older … and financial frictions in amplifying the effects of monetary policy on investment …
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1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …
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This paper examines the importance of financial constraints for firm investment expenditures by looking at the … relationship between investment expenditures and proceeds from voluntary asset sales in financially healthy US manufacturing … companies. Specifically, we examine whether asset sales have a greater influence on investment expenditures for firms that are …
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With functionally efficient capital markets, we expect capital to flow more to the industries with the best growth opportunities. As a result, these industries should invest more and see their assets grow more relative to industries with the worst growth opportunities. We find that industries...
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Using a unique new dataset linking administrative data on investment performance and financial knowledge, we examine …
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