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Corporate Cash Flow and Its Uses

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We decompose corporate cash flow into its primary components to examine how funds are being internally allocated and to elucidate current trends in corporate behavior. By historical standards, capital investment has been low and shareholder payouts have been high over the past few years, although these patterns do not seem so abnormal once recent economic and financial conditions are factored in. That said, corporate debt levels are now somewhat higher than we would expect given the rather tepid economic recovery from the Great Recession.

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  • Thomas B. King & Timothy Larach, 2016. "Corporate Cash Flow and Its Uses," Chicago Fed Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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    1. Issam Samiri, 2021. "Macroeconomic Effects of Firms' Underspending in Times of Abundant Credit," BCAM Working Papers 2102, Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics.

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