The total output of an economy usually follows cyclical movements which are accompanied by similar movements in stock prices. The common explanation relies on the demand side. It points out that stock market wealth drives consumption which triggers production afterwards. This paper focuses on...

This paper contributes to the GDP-consumption co-movement puzzle literature investigating the role of tax evasion in explaining the consumption path after a Marginal Efficiency of Investment shock. We use an otherwise standard medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model combining tax evasion with...

This paper distinguishes political uncertainty from policy uncertainty shocks and uncovers new empirical facts about how each impacts the aggregate cash holdings of US firms. Our baseline structural vector autoregression model shows that an exogenous one standard deviation shock to political and...

Pro forma analysis is often performed with the idea that a firm's cash flows are cyclic. Yet, after forecasting cash flows following a cyclic pattern, the remaining cash flows are calculated using a constant growth perpetuity calculation as a quot;terminal valuequot;. Such a calculation for the...

We document a significant but declining size effect and cyclicality in sales growth within U.S. public firms, including the COVID crisis. The patterns differ significantly from those documented in prior studies which focus on samples dominated by private firms. Small public firms grow faster...

Purpose - The goal of this paper is twofold. First, to examine the role of expectations in shaping agents' behaviour within an extended time frame which incorporates a prolonged harsh downturn of economic activity. Therefore, the authors allow for an indirect impact of economy-wide expectations...

In China’s political selection system, officials capable of growing local economies are rewarded with promotions. Eager to demonstrate economic achievements, newly appointed local leaders may raise tax revenues to expand fiscal expenditures on infrastructure projects. Against this backdrop, we...

We study how firms adjust their financial positions around the times when they undertake lumpy adjustments in capital or labor. Using U.S. data from Compustat, we show that there are discernible patterns of financing lumpy adjustment, remarkably similar across capital and labor, but quite...

Using a large dataset of Greek firms over the period 1998-2014, we investigate the excess sensitivity of small and young firms to the Greek financial crisis, along with the potential sources and aggregate implications. Controlling for size effects, the decline in sales growth rate during the...

The article introduces a new model of multiple-entity accounting system that evolved from triple-entry bookkeeping idea developed by Ijiri Y., the contract model of the firm proposed by Sunder S., and studies of money theory by Dobija M. The multiple-entity accounting model, by contrast to the...