Author: Maurizio La Rocca Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This paper sheds light on the mixed empirical evidence concerning financial constraint and investment sensitivity to cash flow. The literature suggests that measuring financial constraint is far from straightforward, and we therefore propose a cluster analysis procedure to identify unambiguous groups of constrained firms. We found the investment results to be highly sensitive to cash flow for financial constraint firms. Moreover, in line with previous research, our results showed that the traditional criteria used to identify financially constrained firms led to ambiguous interpretations. Overall, our results propose that the cluster analysis can be used to encompass the various single-criterion approaches, thereby providing a finer measurement of the financial constraint construct and deeper insight into the relationship between investment sensitivity to cash flow and financial constraint.
Author: Klaas Mulier Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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We contribute to the financial constraints literature and the investment-cash flow sensitivity debate by defining a new and simple index of firm level financial constraints for unquoted European SMEs. Firms that are constrained according to our index pay higher interest rates on their debt. An exogenous financial supply shock reveals that our index also captures financial constraints in terms of the volume of credit. Our index outperforms existing indices in capturing financial constraints of unquoted SMEs. Finally, employing our proposed index to identify financially constrained firms and using firm-level employment growth as a control for investment opportunities, we find that constrained firms display the highest investment-cash flow sensitivities.
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Using firm-level estimates of investment-cash flow sensitivity, I classify firms into groups of high, low, and negative sensitivity. I find that investment-cash flow sensitivity is non-monotonic with respect to financial constraints, cash flows, and growth opportunities. Specifically, firms with negative cash flow sensitivity have the lowest cash flows and highest growth opportunities, and appear the most financially constrained. Cash flow insensitive firms have the highest cash flows and lowest growth opportunities, and appear the least financially constrained. At least partially, negative cash flow sensitivity is driven by high investment and low cash flow levels at the inception of firms as public companies, which decrease and increase, respectively, with age.
Author: Mr.Vadim Khramov Publisher: International Monetary Fund ISBN: 1475502877 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 28
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This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment-cash flow sensitivity, the value of a firm's assets that can be used as collateral should be taken into account. Using panel data on U.S. firms from 1990 to 2011, it was found that the share of physical capital in assets has a strong influence on investment-cash flow sensitivity, which decreased substantially after the crisis when banks changed their expectations about the value of assets on firms' balance sheets. This paper deepens our understanding of firms' investment behavior.
Author: Nathalie Moyen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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From the existing literature, it is not clear what effect financial constraints have on the sensitivity of firms' investment to their cash flow. Conflicting results are due to the use of different criteria for identifying financially constrained firms. I propose an explanation that reconciles the conflicting empirical evidence. I present two models: the unconstrained model in which firms can raise funds on external markets and the constrained model in which firms cannot do so. From these two models, I generate a panel of data, including investment and cash flow series. I find that the sensitivity of investment to cash flow is lower for firms described by the constrained model than for firms described by the unconstrained model, consistent with Kaplan and Zingales's (1997) result. I also find in my generated panel of data that the sensitivity of investment to cash flow is higher for low dividend firms than for high dividend firms, consistent with Fazzari, Hubbard, and Petersen's (1988) result.
Author: Kose John Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 0857249150 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 210
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Presents research on corporate governance from a number of countries across the world, including the United States, Spain, Malaysia, Israel and others. This title examines many important corporate governance mechanisms, such as board characteristics, ownership structure, legal protection of shareholders, and annual general meetings.
Author: Steven N. Kaplan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cash flow Languages : en Pages : 24
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Kaplan and Zingales [1997] provide both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence that investment-cash flow sensitivities are not good indicators of financing constraints. Fazzari, Hubbard and Petersen [1999] criticize those findings. In this note, we explain how the Fazzari et al. [1999] criticisms are either very supportive of the claims in Kaplan and Zingales [1997] or incorrect. We conclude with a discussion of unanswered questions.
Author: Huafeng (Jason) Chen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 49
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Investment-cash flow sensitivity has declined and disappeared, even during the 2007-2009 credit crunch. If one believes that financial constraints have not disappeared, then investment-cash flow sensitivity cannot be a good measure of financial constraints. The decline and disappearance are robust to considerations of Ramp;D and cash reserves, and across groups of firms. The information content in cash flow regarding investment opportunities has declined, but measurement error in Tobin's q does not completely explain the patterns in investment-cash flow sensitivity. The decline and disappearance cannot be explained by changes in sample composition, corporate governance, or market power; and remain a puzzle.
Author: George Wong Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 43
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This study examines the separate impact and joint effect of financial constraints and financial market mispricing on the sensitivity of investment to internal cash flows. Using a large sample of US manufacturing firms over the period 1971-2004, we find that financially unconstrained firms are more flexible in adjusting their sources of financing for corporate investment in response to financial market mispricing. Specifically, financially unconstrained firms tend to have lower (higher) investment-cash flow sensitivities in situations of overvaluation (undervaluation). This provides an explanation of why unconstrained firms have higher valuations than constrained firms.
Author: Maurizio La Rocca
Author: Klaas Mulier
Author: Gayané Hovakimian
Author: Mr.Vadim Khramov
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Author: Kose John
Author: Steven N. Kaplan
Author: Huafeng (Jason) Chen
Author: George Wong