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Corporate investment and cash flow sensitivity: what drives the relationship?

The excess sensitivity of investment to cash flow has been demonstrated in numerous studies. Recent research has identified differences in the degree of sensitivity across countries, which it ascribes to the nature of the lender-borrower relationship in the financial systems of those countries. In this paper we offer new methods and results to determine whether differences are associated with structural explanations such as the nature of the financial system and industrial composition, or due to other firm-specific determinants such as size or creditworthiness. Unlike previous research we are able to systematically control for competing explanations in our data from more than one country and thereby isolate what drives the relationship. We find that creditworthiness is the main driving force of cash flow sensitivity.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 485

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Thema
cash flow sensitivity
corporate investment
cross-country investment studies
Investition
Cash Flow
Sensitivitätsanalyse
Großbritannien
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mizen, Paul
Vermeulen, Philip
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2005

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mizen, Paul
  • Vermeulen, Philip
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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