Financing Investment
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- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Economic Association in American Economic Review
- Vol. 91 (5) , 1263-1285
- https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.5.1263
Abstract
We examine investment behavior when firms face costs in the access to external funds. We find that despite the existence of liquidity constraints, standard investment regressions predict that cash flow is an important determinant of investment only if one ignores q. Conversely, we also obtain significant cash flow effects even in the absence of financial frictions. These findings provide support to the argument that the success of cash-flow-augmented investment regressions is probably due to a combination of measurement error in q and identification problems.Keywords
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