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Corporate investment leads job creation and output growth by increasing capital accumulation in the short-run, and also … uncertainty could have a negative effect on the Korean economy by reducing corporate investment. The recent survey conducted by … KIET supports this concern in a sense that Korean firms would plan to postpone their investment decisions until the economy …
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The authors show that there is a negative relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and firm overinvestment using Korean data from 2007 to 2016. Since Jensen (1986) shows that a firm's free cash flow is an important factor of overinvestment, the authors examine how free cash flow...
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This paper examines whether the investment of Korean business group ("chaebol") affiliated firms behaved differently … from that of non-chaebol firms in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. I show that chaebol firms cut back investment to a … investment and values …
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economy by testing whether financial development eases firm’s financial restriction for investment. The role of financial …
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financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …
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This paper investigates the relationship between a firm's investment decision and its financial situation. We present a … model of investment, where the cost of external finance is increasing in the debt ratio. The model is estimated using a …
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investment or disinvestment and/or mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We show theoretically how the choice of adjustment strategy …
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their investment decisions. Moreover, financial con-straints become more severe in times of restrictive monetary policy. …
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In 1867, the "Compromise" between Austria and Hungary laid the foundation of a single currency system with a common central bank. As in today's euroland, each part of the monarchy remained sovereign in fiscal matters. Moreover, the borrowing needs of both parts of the monarchy were quite large,...
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Empirical evidence suggests that capital structure varies across firms facing different levels of information asymmetry, however, this evidence contradict the prediction of pecking order hypothesis. Although debt capacity constraints offer some explanation for this discrepancy, it fails to...
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