The investment-cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) of Chinese firms declined during the global financial crisis, which contradicts the conventional financial constraint interpretation of ICFS. We analyze this phenomenon by examining how cash flow uncertainty affects the ways of financing investment. We...

This paper investigates how export destination concentration affects exporters' domestic capital investments. Using a large sample of Chinese export firms, we find strong evidence that firms invest less when destinations are more concentrated. The causal relationship is further confirmed by a...

What drives a firm's investment decisions in China? While most literature focuses on the role of financial factors (such as cash flow), we explore this most important question in corporate finance from the perspective of economic fundamentals. Empirical results show that private firms cherish...

Firms have different choices of using equity issuance and cash flow to save. Empirically, we find three differences between savings from equity issuance and cash flow. First, firms may not increase or decrease the savings rates of equity issuance and cash flow at the same time. Second, the...

Upgrading is a travel industry practice used to mitigate supply-demand mismatches among products of different quality levels. Such upgrades are implemented either at the booking time or at the check-in time. In this paper, we consider dynamically-offered upgrades between the booking and the...

I backcast expectation errors of credit spreads via machine learning. I use newspapers over the past century to construct text-based expectations of credit spreads and study the relationship between expectation errors and business cycles. The main result is that overoptimism about future credit...

What drives a firm's investment decisions in China? While most literature focuses on the role of financial factors (such as cash flow), we explore this most important question in corporate finance from the perspective of economic fundamentals. Empirical results show that private firms cherish...