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We analyze the interactions between financing constraints and product market competition. Financially constrained firms … competition. Market valuations do not take into account these differences in fundamental risk. Unconstrained firms in competitive …
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I develop a continuous-time model to examine how the interaction between competition and financial constraints affects …
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The optimal investment-dividend policy of a financially constrained firm whose earnings are subject to additive shocks is shown to exhibit several stylized economic and financial features of the firm life cycle which usually require considerably more complex models. This parsimonious model...
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This study investigates whether fluctuations in credit supply in a macroeconomy and a relational bank's financial condition affect the capital structure adjustment of firms. Using data for Japanese listed firms from 1988 to 2014, we find that firms adjust their capital structure slower during...
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Firms' sensitivities to business cycles differ by size and age. The differences are large: "young and small firms" are more cyclical than large firms, whereas "old and small" firms are closer to acyclical. A heterogeneous-firm model with heterogeneous returns to scale can replicate these...
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We study optimal liquidity management, innovation, and production decisions for a continuum of firms facing financing frictions and the threat of creative destruction. We show that financing constraints lead firms to decrease production but may spur investment in innovation (R&D). We...
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This paper analyzes the effects of credit frictions in a trade model where heterogeneous firms select both into exporting and into two types of external finance. In our framework, small producers face stronger credit frictions, pay a higher borrowing rate and rely on bank finance, whereas large...
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decomposition is shown in a model featuring heterogeneous multiproduct firms, oligopolistic competition and free firm entry. When …
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The paper investigates the relationship between corporate hedging and product market competition. Using a broad sample … the market share loss of constrained unhedged firms is due to increased competition in the product market. Furthermore, I …
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What is the interaction between competition, R&D investments, and the financing choices of R&D-intensive firms …? Motivated by existing theories, we hypothesize that as competition increases, R&D-intensive firms will: (1) increase R … industries, as well as heterogeneity within the biopharma industry, in response to an exogenous change in competition. We also …
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