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With functionally efficient capital markets, we expect capital to flow more to the industries with the best growth opportunities. As a result, these industries should invest more and see their assets grow more relative to industries with the worst growth opportunities. We find that industries...
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This paper explores the hypothesis that the rise in intangible capital is a fundamental driver of the secular trend in US corporate cash holdings over the last decades. Using a new measure, we show that intangible capital is the most important firm-level determinant of corporate cash holdings....
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This paper explores the connection between rising intangible capital and the secular upward trend in US corporate cash holdings. We calibrate a dynamic model with two productive assets, tangible and intangible capital, to highlight the following points: 1) since only tangible capital can be...
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investment - results that are consistent with the model's predictions. -- investment ; stock market ; bubble ; dispersion …
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The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to overinvest into physical assets. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed to explain this stylized fact, most of them focussing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows that...
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The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to over-invest in their companies. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed at explaining this stylized fact, most of them focusing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows...
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This paper explores the existence and importance of financing constraints for R&D investments in large EU and US manufacturing companies over the 2000-2007 period. The main results obtained by estimating error-correction equations suggest that the sensitivity of R&D investments to cash flow...
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We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standarddeviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …
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known as intangibles, suggest that their share in overall investment has grown considerably. Still, intangible investment is … rarely present in investment models. In this paper, I extend the q-theory of investment to model explicitly the decision of … movements in the measurement of the contribution of each type of investment to the overall capital stock. In particular, given …
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corporate investment. We document that in a sample of publicly listed firms in the United States over the period 1991-2013, bank … systemic risk is positively associated with the firm-level investment ratio after controlling for a large set of country … risk on corporate investment, suggesting that more financially constrained firms experience a larger effect of bank …
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