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While the trade literature has tended to view export activity and innovation as complementary activities, we present … amount of innovation, exporting, and endogenous financial capital structure is able to account for these empirical findings …
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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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Institutional investors conduct more governance research and are less likely to follow proxy advisor vote … investors in improving governance. The findings do not concentrate on companies or shareholder proposals where creditor …
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Textbook theory assumes that firm managers maximize the net present value of future cash flows. But when you ask them, real-world firm managers consistently say that they are maximizing something else entirely: earnings per share (EPS). Perhaps this is a mistake. No matter. We take firm managers...
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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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of a long-term contract between firms linked in the production process, and it is sustained in equilibrium by reputation …
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This paper studies how a large increase in the price level is transmitted to the real economy through firm balance sheets. Using newly digitized macro- and micro-level data from the German inflation of 1919-1923, we show that inflation led to a large reduction in real debt burdens and...
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impediment to corporate innovation. By contrast, without technological spillovers, innovation has the effect of stealing market … share from rivals; in that case, more common ownership reduces innovation. Empirically, the association between common … ownership and innovation inputs and outputs decreases with product market proximity and increases with technology proximity. The …
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divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …
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We provide evidence that over the past 30 years, U.S. firms have expanded their scope of operations. Increases in scope and scale were achieved largely without increasing traditional operating segments. Scope expansion significantly increases valuation and is primarily realized through...
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