Download or read book Cash Flow Sensitivity of Investment written by Armen Hovakimian and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment cash flow sensitivity is associated with both undervestment when cash flows are low and overinvestment when cash flows are high. The accessibility of external capital is positively correlated with cash flows, intensifying investment cash flow sensitivity. Managers actively counteract the variations in internal and external liquidity by accumulating working capital when liquidity is high and draining it when liquidity is low. These results imply that cash flow sensitive firms face financial constraints, which are binding in low cash flow years. While financial constraints have an economically significant impact on investment timing, cash flow sensitive firms alleviate their effects and, actually, overinvest, on aggregate.

Download or read book Asymmetric Effects of the Financial Crisis written by Mr.Vadim Khramov and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment-cash flow sensitivity, the value of a firm's assets that can be used as collateral should be taken into account. Using panel data on U.S. firms from 1990 to 2011, it was found that the share of physical capital in assets has a strong influence on investment-cash flow sensitivity, which decreased substantially after the crisis when banks changed their expectations about the value of assets on firms' balance sheets. This paper deepens our understanding of firms' investment behavior.

Download or read book The Determinants of Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity written by Gayané Hovakimian and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using firm-level estimates of investment-cash flow sensitivity, I classify firms into groups of high, low, and negative sensitivity. I find that investment-cash flow sensitivity is non-monotonic with respect to financial constraints, cash flows, and growth opportunities. Specifically, firms with negative cash flow sensitivity have the lowest cash flows and highest growth opportunities, and appear the most financially constrained. Cash flow insensitive firms have the highest cash flows and lowest growth opportunities, and appear the least financially constrained. At least partially, negative cash flow sensitivity is driven by high investment and low cash flow levels at the inception of firms as public companies, which decrease and increase, respectively, with age.

Download or read book The Sensitivity of Investment to Cash Flow written by Xueping Wu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We find the investment-cash-flow-sensitivity (ICFS) decreases with a firm's asymmetric informational imperfection about growth (AI), a variable highly persistent over time. Firms with distinctly initial AI have distinct future investment styles and financing patterns. Higher initial AI predicts an investment style with more R&D intensity and a financing pattern with more equity than debt. Types of asymmetric information (about growth vs. assets-in-place) affect external finance so that growth uncertainty appears to facilitate rather than suppress equity financing. These findings are consistent with a growth-type explanation for ICFS and do not support the proposition that informational imperfection generally imposes financial constraints.

Download or read book Is Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity a Good Measure of Financing Constraints written by Rejie George and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Determinants of Financing Obstacles written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity Cannot Be a Good Measure of Financial Constraints written by Huafeng (Jason) Chen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment-cash flow sensitivity has declined and disappeared, even during the 2007-2009 credit crunch. If one believes that financial constraints have not disappeared, then investment-cash flow sensitivity cannot be a good measure of financial constraints. The decline and disappearance are robust to considerations of Ramp;D and cash reserves, and across groups of firms. The information content in cash flow regarding investment opportunities has declined, but measurement error in Tobin's q does not completely explain the patterns in investment-cash flow sensitivity. The decline and disappearance cannot be explained by changes in sample composition, corporate governance, or market power; and remain a puzzle.

Download or read book Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity written by Klaas Mulier and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low cash flow volatility firms receive stronger signals about future cash flow from a given cash flow shock, yielding a larger drop in demand for external finance and their cost of external finance, implying higher investment-cash flow sensitivities (ICFS). Empirical analysis in 6 European countries confirms this. Considering firms with the same cash flow volatility, ICFS are more pronounced for financially constrained firms (cf. Fazzari et al. (1988)). Considering firms with the same level of financial constraints, ICFS are more pronounced for firms with low cash flow volatility (cf. Kaplan and Zingales (1997)). The contradictory findings in the literature may be explained by cash flow volatility.

Download or read book Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity and Financing Constraints written by Rejie George and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversy exists on the use of the investment ndash; cash flow sensitivity as a measure of financing constraints of firms. We re-examine this controversy by analyzing firms affiliated to Indian business groups. We find a strong investment ndash; cash flow sensitivity for both group-affiliated and independent firms, but no significant difference in the sensitivity between them. Additional tests consistently demonstrate that investment ndash; cash flow sensitivity of Indian group affiliated firms is not significantly lower relative to unaffiliated firms.

Download or read book The Saudi Arabian Economy written by Mohamed A. Ramady and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically. In the second edition of The Saudi Arabian Economy, Mohamed Ramady uses several overlapping themes to establish and develop a framework for studying the fundamental challenges to the Saudi economy. Particular attention is paid to the benefits of short-term planning and long-term diversification intended to shield the economy from potentially de-stabilizing oil price fluctuations and the pace and diversity of domestic reforms. The author examines the core strengths and evolution of various financial institutions and the Saudi stock market in the face of globalization, before analyzing the private sector in detail. Topics discussed include: • The hydrocarbon and minerals sector, including the emergence of the competitive petrochemical sector • The impact of small and medium sized businesses and the evolving role of “family” businesses • The growing role of women in the Saudi economy • The role of privatization and FDI as engines of change and the position of public-private-partnerships • The establishment of a foundation for a knowledge-based economy Finally, the author offers an analysis of the key challenges facing the Saudi economy, paying particular attention to the potential costs and benefits of globalization, and membership in the WTO. Employment, education, economic and social stability, and Saudi Arabia’s place in the Gulf Cooperation Council, as well as Saudi Arabia’s evolving strategic economic relations with China and other countries are offered as keys to the consensus building needed to ensure the Kingdom’s healthy economic future.

Download or read book Financial Constraints and Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity written by Zhangkai Huang and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a large sample of US listed companies, we show that the relation between financial constraints and investment-cash flow sensitivity is non-linear. The different results generated in previous studies could be explained by sample selection problems. We show that when using actual level of investment in the regression, as in the standard investment literature, coefficient on cash flow cannot be an accurate measure of financial constraints. The monotonic and positive relationship between financial constraints and investment-cash flow sensitivity is not robust in large-sample studies using detailed classification scheme.

Download or read book Financial Liberalization Credit Constraints and Collateral written by Mr.R. Gelos and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the impact of financial liberalization on fixed investment in Mexico, using establishment-level data from the manufacturing sector. It analyzes changes in cash-flow sensitivities and uses an innovative approach to explore the role of real estate as collateral and deal with a potential censoring problem. The results suggest that financial constraints were eased for small firms but not for large ones. However, banks’ reliance on collateral in their lending operations increased the importance of real estate. The results provide microeconomic evidence consistent with the role attributed to “financial accelerator” mechanisms during lending booms and during recessions that stem from financial crises.

Download or read book On the Relationship Between the Investment cash Flow Sensitivity and the Degree of Financing Constraints written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Firm Size and Investment cash Flow Sensitivity written by Marina Mustapha and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Explaining the Cash Flow Sensitivity of Investment in Australian Firms written by McGregor Duncan Fea and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity Under Managerial Optimism written by Ezzeddine Ben Mohamed and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment cash flow sensitivity constitutes one important block of the corporate financial literature. While it is well documented in standard corporate finance, it is still young under behavioral corporate finance. In this paper, we test the investment cash flow sensitivity among panel data of American industrials firms during 1999-2010. Using Q-model of investment (Tobin 1969), we construct and introduce a proxy of managerial optimism following Malmendier and Tate (2005a) to show the impact of CEOs optimism in the relationship between investment and internal cash flow. Our results report a positive and significant coefficient of investment to cash flow for the full sample. While, estimations of our model using sub-sample of more and less constrained firms, we find that the sensitivity exist and stronger only for totally constrained group. We find also that board characteristics can reduce investment policy' distortions.

Download or read book Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity and Financial Constraint written by Maurizio La Rocca and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper sheds light on the mixed empirical evidence concerning financial constraint and investment sensitivity to cash flow. The literature suggests that measuring financial constraint is far from straightforward, and we therefore propose a cluster analysis procedure to identify unambiguous groups of constrained firms. We found the investment results to be highly sensitive to cash flow for financial constraint firms. Moreover, in line with previous research, our results showed that the traditional criteria used to identify financially constrained firms led to ambiguous interpretations. Overall, our results propose that the cluster analysis can be used to encompass the various single-criterion approaches, thereby providing a finer measurement of the financial constraint construct and deeper insight into the relationship between investment sensitivity to cash flow and financial constraint.