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In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 84, No. 1, 2016
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 10, 2016 erstellt
Beschreibung:
US data display aggregate external financing and savings waves. Firms can allocate costly external finance to productive capital, or to liquid assets with low physical returns. If firms raise costly external finance and accumulate liquidity, either the cost of external finance is relatively low or the total return to liquidity accumulation, including its shadow value as future internal funds, is particularly high. We formalize this intuition by estimating a dynamic model of firms' financing and savings decisions, and use our model along with firm level data to construct an empirical estimate of the average cost of external finance from 1980 to 2014