outside the U.S. due to a greater decline of intangible investment and a much slower recovery. Tangible capital can be … investment relies on firms’ liquidity holdings that were drawn down in the crisis and can only be rebuilt gradually through … retained profits. We provide a unified account of the findings through a dynamic model of corporate investment and liquidity …

, the sensitivity of cash to cash flow, and the sensitivity of investment to cash flow all decline significantly, while … investment significantly increases following the acquisition. These effects are stronger in deals more likely associated with …

This paper examines the extent to which investment financing and market-timing explanations motivate public equity … one motive for the equity offer being to raise capital for investment. However, firms also hold onto much of the cash they …. These results suggest that market timing as well as investment financing is a motivation for equity offers …