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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 …
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An increasing fraction of firms worldwide operate in multiple countries. We study the costs and benefits of being multinational in firms' corporate financial decisions and survey the related academic evidence. We document that, among U.S. publicly traded firms, the prevalence of multinationals...
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Many institutional investors depend on the returns they generate to fund their operations and liabilities. How do these investors' financial conditions affect the management of their portfolios? We address this issue using the insurance industry because insurers are large investors for which...
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How does global warming affect firms' activities? We consider this issue from the perspective of theelectricity producing industry. Warmer temperatures increase the demand for air conditioning, the use of which fluctuates substantially over time, making investments in “flexible” power plants...
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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 …
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, 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 …
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, 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 …
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