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Optimal investment with fixed financing costs

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  • Cummins, Jason G.
  • Nyman, Ingmar

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Case studies show that corporate managers seek financial independence to avoid interference by outside financiers. We incorporate this financial xenophobia as a fixed cost in a simple dynamic model of financing and investment. To avoid refinancing in the future, the firm alters its behavior depending on the extent of its financial xenophobia and the realization of a revenue shock. With a sufficiently adverse shock, the firm holds no liquidity. Otherwise, the firm precautionarily saves and holds both liquidity and external finance. Investment always responds to neoclassical fundamentals, but responds to cash flow only when the firm holds no liquidity.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Finance Research Letters.

Volume (Year): 1 (2004)
Issue (Month): 4 (December)
Pages: 226-235

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Cited by:

  1. Eisfeldt, Andrea L. & Muir, Tyler, 2016. "Aggregate external financing and savings waves," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 116-133.
  2. Christopher F. Baum & Atreya Chakraborty & Liyan Han & Boyan Liu, 2012. "The effects of uncertainty and corporate governance on firms’ demand for liquidity," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(4), pages 515-525, February.
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  7. Christopher F. Baum & Atreya Chakraborty & Boyan Liu, 2016. "Corporate Financial Policy and the Value of Cash under Uncertainty," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 918, Boston College Department of Economics.

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