Credit vs. demand constraints: The determinants of US firm-level investment over the business cycles from 1977 to 2011 |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Wood Science and Engineering, Oregon State University, 119 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States;2. Kristiania University College, PB 1190 Sentrum, 0107, Oslo, Norway;1. Tokio Marine Asset Management Co., Ltd, 1-3-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan;2. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo/CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
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Abstract: | The paper studies empirically how relative supply and demand conditions on the capital market affected US firm-level investment over the business cycles from 1977 to 2011. A dynamic econometric specification of capital accumulation including sales growth, Tobin's q, the cash flow-capital ratio and the cost of capital as covariates is fitted by a rolling window System GMM estimator using quarterly data on publicly traded US corporations in order to obtain time-varying coefficients. We find that the investment effects of the variables capturing the demand-side of the capital market, i.e. sales growth and Tobin's q, behave counter-cyclically, whereas this does not hold for the investment effects of supply-side variables such as cash flow or the cost of capital. Our results suggest that investment was typically driven by adverse demand rather than supply conditions on the capital market during the most severe recessions. |
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Keywords: | Investment Credit constraints Business cycles Panel estimation System GMM |
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