This paper examines the firm growth-size and growth-learning theories using sales revenue ratios and cost ratios. The results show that (I) low growth is positively associated with short-term turnovers which indicate that firms' focus on the short-term leads to reduced growth rates, (II)...

We show that there is a negative relation between leverage and future growth at the firm level and, for diversified firms, at the segment level. Further, this negative relation between leverage and growth holds for firms with low Tobin's q, but not for high-q firms or firms in high-q industries....

Which of the strategies for financing constraints in economic models is the most empirically plausible? This paper tests two commonly used models of financing constraints, costly state verification (Townsend, 1979) and moral hazard (Holmström and Tirole, 1997), using a comprehensive data set of...