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Financial Dependence and Innovation : The Case of Public versus Private Firms

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the … innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms. We find that public firms in external finance dependent … in internal finance dependent industries do not have a significantly better innovation profile than matched private firms …

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Financing Infrastructure in the Shadow of Expropriation

Acharya, Viral V.; Parlatore, Cecilia; Sundaresan, Suresh M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the optimal financing of infrastructure when governments have limited financial commitment and can expropriate rents from private sector firms that manage infrastructure. While private firms need incentives to implement projects well, governments need incentives to limit...

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The Risk of Being a Fallen Angel and the Corporate Dash for Cash in the Midst of COVID

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

Data on firm-loan-level daily credit line drawdowns in the United States expose a corporate "dash for cash" induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first phase of the crisis, which was characterized by extreme precaution and heightened aggregate risk, all firms drew down bank credit lines and...

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Aggregate Risk and the Choice between Cash and Lines of Credit

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We argue that a firm's aggregate risk is a key determinant of whether it manages its future liquidity needs through cash reserves or bank lines of credit. Banks create liquidity for firms by pooling their idiosyncratic risks. As a result, firms with high aggregate risk find it costly to get...

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Why International Equity Inflows to Emerging Markets are Inefficient and Small Relative to International Debt Flows

Razin, Assaf - 2001

This paper considers the financing of investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the 'insiders' and the 'outsiders' of the firms in a small open economy. It establishes a well-defined capital structure for the economy as a whole with the following features: low-productivity...

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Cash Holdings and Credit Risk

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

Intuition suggests that firms with higher cash holdings are safer and should have lower credit spreads. Yet empirically, the correlation between cash and spreads is robustly positive and higher for lower credit ratings. This puzzling finding can be explained by the precautionary motive for...

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Kicking the Can Down the Road : Government Interventions in the European Banking Sector

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

We analyze the determinants and the long-run consequences of government interventions in the eurozone banking sector during the 2008/09 financial crisis. Using a novel and comprehensive dataset, we document that fiscally constrained governments "kicked the can down the road" by providing banks...

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Zombie Credit and (Dis-)Inflation : Evidence from Europe

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

We show that cheap credit to impaired firms has a disinflationary effect. By helping distressed firms to stay afloat, "zombie credit" can create excess production capacity, and in turn, put downward pressure on markups and prices. We test this mechanism exploiting granular inflation and...

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Fiscal and Migration Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2010

It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...

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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

Cohen, Alon - 2009

Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...

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