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Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility, and Corporate Investment

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 5, pp. 1429-1460, 2007

Posted: 25 Jun 2008

See all articles by Heitor Almeida

Heitor Almeida

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Murillo Campello

University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: 2007

Abstract

Pledgeable assets support more borrowing, which allows for further investment in pledgeable assets. We use this credit multiplier to identify the impact of financing frictions on corporate investment. The multiplier suggests that investment cash flow sensitivities should be increasing in the tangibility of firms' assets (a proxy for pledgeability), but only if firms are financially constrained. Our empirical results confirm this theoretical prediction. Our approach is not subject to the Kaplan and Zingales () critique, and sidesteps problems stemming from unobservable variation in investment opportunities. Thus, our results strongly suggest that financing frictions affect investment decisions.

Keywords: G31

Suggested Citation

Almeida, Heitor and Campello, Murillo, Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility, and Corporate Investment (2007). Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 5, pp. 1429-1460, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1151165 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhm019

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