We find significant persistence in various investment and financing policies. This persistence survives even the split-up of a firm through a spin-off transaction. We find that spin-off firms choose policies that are more similar to those of their parent firms than to those of their own matched...

Economic theories suggest that a firm's corporate culture matters for its policy choices. We construct a parent-spinoff firm panel dataset that allows us to identify culture effects in firm policies from behavior that is inherited by a spinoff firm from its parent after the firms split up. We...

Economic theories suggest that a firm's corporate culture matters for its policy choices. We construct a parent-spinoff firm panel dataset that allows us to identify culture effects in firm policies from behavior that is inherited by a spinoff firm from its parent after the firms split up. We...