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

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The excess sensitivity of investment to cash flow has been demonstrated in numerous stud- ies. 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.

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Paper provided by European Central Bank in its series Working Paper Series with number 485.

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Length: 40 pages
Date of creation: May 2005
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Handle: RePEc:ecb:ecbwps:20050485

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Keywords: Corporate investment; cash flow sensitivity; cross-country investment studies.;

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  1. Marina-Eliza Spaliara, 2010. "Financial frictions and the K/L ratio in UK manufacturing industries," Discussion Paper Series 2010_7, Department of Economics, Loughborough University.
  2. Annalisa Ferrando & Rozália Pál, 2006. "Financing constraints and firms’ cash policy in the euro area," Working Paper Series 642, European Central Bank.
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  6. Spaliara, Marina-Eliza, 2011. "Financial frictions and the K/L ratio in UK manufacturing," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 112(1), pages 23-25, July.
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