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The financialization of the non‐financial corporation. A critique to the financial turn of accumulation hypothesis

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One aspect in which non‐financial corporations (NFCs) are said to be financialized is that they have been increasingly engaged in financial accumulation from which they derive a growing proportion of financial income. This is what we call the financial turn of accumulation hypothesis. In this article, we show that the evidence used to sustain it, in the U.S. setting, has to be reconsidered. Our findings show that, contrary to the financial turn of accumulation hypothesis, financial income averages 2.5% of NFCs’ total income since the 1980s, oscillating since the beginnings of the 1990s until 2005 and then declining. In terms of assets, some of the alleged financial assets might actually reflect other activities in which NFCs have been increasingly engaged, such as tax avoidance, internationalization of production, activities refocusing and M&As.

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  • Joel Rabinovich, 2019. "The financialization of the non‐financial corporation. A critique to the financial turn of accumulation hypothesis," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 70(4), pages 738-775, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:metroe:v:70:y:2019:i:4:p:738-775
    DOI: 10.1111/meca.12251
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    3. Tristan Auvray & Cédric Durand & Joel Rabinovich & Cecilia Rikap, 2021. "Corporate financialization’s conservation and transformation: from Mark I to Mark II," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 431-457, December.
    4. Joel Rabinovich & Rodrigo Perez Artica, 2020. "Cash holdings and the financialisation of Latin American nonfinancial corporations," Working Papers hal-02474321, HAL.
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    9. Tristan Auvray & Cédric Durand & Joel Rabinovich & Cecilia Rikap, 2020. "Financialization's conservation and transformation: from Mark I to Mark II," Working Papers hal-03079425, HAL.
    10. Shromona Ganguly, 2021. "Financialization of the Real Economy: New Empirical Evidence from the Non-financial Firms in India Using Conditional Logistic Model," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 19(3), pages 493-523, September.
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    14. Annina Kaltenbrunner & Elif Karaçimen & Joel Rabinovich, 2023. "The changing financial practises of Brazilian and Turkish firms under financial subordination, a mixed-methods analysis," Working Papers PKWP2306, Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES).
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