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Does Financialization of Non-Financial Corporations Promote or Prohibit Corporate Risk-Taking?

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  • Jinghua Wang
  • Ning Mao

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We investigate how the financialization of nonfinancial corporations (NFCs) affects corporate risk-taking. We find that NFCs’ financialization has an adverse effect on corporate risk-taking, supporting the “crowding-out” effect. Short-term financial investments undermine firms’ incentives to chase risky but profitable investment projects. The negative association between NFCs’ financialization and corporate risk-taking is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises and firms with lower institutional ownership, showing that financialization leads managers to become more myopic and reduce long-term investments. Further, the sensitivity of financialization and corporate risk-taking varies with financial asset classification. We address both selection and endogeneity concerns.

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  • Jinghua Wang & Ning Mao, 2022. "Does Financialization of Non-Financial Corporations Promote or Prohibit Corporate Risk-Taking?," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(7), pages 1913-1924, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:58:y:2022:i:7:p:1913-1924
    DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2021.1944853
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