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access to additional financing. Overall, the results suggest that the bundle of inputs that angel investors provide have a …
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It is well understood that investment serves as a shock absorber at the time of crisis. The duration of the drag on … investment, however, is perplexing. For the nine Asian economies we focus on in this study, average investment/GDP is about 6 … markedly as public and private sectors look inward when external financing becomes prohibitively costly, altogether impossible …
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that have positive cost of capital shocks and larger financing needs. We also find that firms respond with additional …
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Scholars engage in extensive debate about the role of families and corporations in economic growth. Some propose that personal ties provide a mechanism for overcoming such transactions costs as asymmetrical information, while others regard familial connections as conduits for inefficiency, with...
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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 … employs misleading criteria to make unrealistically fine distinctions in the degree of financing constraints, and emphasizes …
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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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