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This paper shows that during industry downturns, firms experience significantly greater valuation losses when their industry peers' long-term debt is maturing at the time of the shocks. Across a range of tests, the analysis addresses the endogenous determination of peer debt maturity structure....
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finance the utility's investment program. Cross-sectional regressions reveal no relation between offer-induced price effects …
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through market-timing and catering, after controlling for growth and financial slack. This investment-mispricing link is more … sensitivity of investments to mispricing is a function of the nature of mispricing, the type of investment, and the firm …
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investment - results that are consistent with the model's predictions. -- investment ; stock market ; bubble ; dispersion …
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We document sizeable and surprising differences in investment behavior between stock market listed and privately held … responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to matched private firms, even during the recent financial crisis … that investment behavior diverges most strongly in industries in which stock prices are particularly sensitive to current …
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We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we … compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms … compared to private firms, public firms invest substantially less and are less responsive to changes in investment …
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This paper investigates investment behavior across public and privately held firms using a novel firm-level dataset. We … invest more than their non-listed counterparts. In addition, their investment decisions are significantly more sensitive to … changes in investment opportunities, and they respond more aggressively. These results constitute evidence rejecting the …
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of stock market liberalization on corporate investment and address some of the data and methodological concerns raised in … previous studies. Our difference-in-differences analysis shows that the reform boosts the investment of investable firms … relative to non-investable firms. It also makes the investable firms' investment more responsive to growth opportunities …
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This study examines the impact of stock market liberalization on corporate investment and its underlying mechanisms in … that stock market liberalization improves corporate investment by relieving financing constraints and restraining … has a positive effect on managerial investment decisions …
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We study the effect of investor horizons on corporate cash holdings. We argue that investors with longer horizons monitor more because their net benefit of monitoring is higher. Consequently, the optimal amount of corporate cash holdings increases, so firms hold more cash. We find empirical...
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