Title
Financial capacity and discontinuous investment: Evidence from emerging market multibusiness firms
Date Issued
01 September 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Escuela de Negocios Stern de la Universidad de Nueva York
Abstract
I provide a new characterization of internal capital markets in an emerging economy using daily divisional data on all Peruvian fish-processing firms. A regression discontinuity model exploiting government production bans on regulated divisions ("fishmeal") shows that the increased investment in the nonfishmeal divisions due to the bans is substantial (over 30% of the mean value), after controlling for productivity. The redeployment of financial capacity into nonfishmeal investments is particularly sharper when external financing is more costly and when firms are more closely monitored by creditors. The value-creating nature of this redeployment is supported by its positive effects on nonfishmeal exports. © 2013 The Author.
Start page
2375
End page
2410
Volume
26
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Relaciones Industriales
Negocios, Administración
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84882967093
Source
Review of Financial Studies
ISSN of the container
14657368
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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