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Costly External Finance, Corporate Investment, and the Subprime Mortgage Credit Crisis
Ran Duchin University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Stephen M. Ross School of Business Oguzhan Ozbas University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department Berk A. Sensoy Fisher College of Business - Ohio State University Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. MKT 01-09 Ross School of Business Paper No. 1121 Abstract: We study the effect of the financial crisis that began in August 2007 on corporate investment. The crisis represents an unexplored negative shock to the supply of external finance for non-financial firms. We find that corporate investment declines significantly following the onset of the crisis, controlling for firm fixed effects and time-varying measures of investment opportunities. Consistent with a causal effect of a supply shock, the decline is greatest for firms that have low cash reserves or high net short-term debt, are financially constrained, or operate in industries dependent on external finance. To address concerns about the endogeneity of firms’ finances to changes in investment opportunities, we measure these financial positions as much as four years prior to the crisis and confirm that we do not find similar results following placebo crises in the summers of 2003-2006. We also do not find similar results following the negative demand shock caused by the events of September 11. These effects weaken considerably beginning in the third quarter of 2008, when the demand-side effects of the crisis became apparent, suggesting that supply constraints may no longer have been binding. Additional analysis suggests an important precautionary savings motive for seemingly excess cash that has not been emphasized in the literature. Accepted Paper Series Date posted: October 18, 2008 ; Last revised: October 27, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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