Campello, Murillo; Hackbarth, Dirk - In: Journal of Financial Intermediation 21 (2012) 3, pp. 446-472
We study the effect of asset tangibility on corporate financing and investment decisions. Financially constrained firms … investment. Using a dynamic model, we characterize this effect — which we call firm-level credit multiplier — and show how asset … tangibility increases the sensitivity of investment to Tobin’s Q for financially constrained firms. Examining a large sample of …