We show theoretically that while cash allows financially constrained firms to hedge future investment against income shortfalls, reducing current debt is a more effective way to boost investment in future high cash flow states. Thus, constrained firms prefer higher cash to lower debt if their...

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...

We study a model in which future financing constraints leas firms to have a preference for investments with sorter payback periods, investments with less risk, and investments that utilize more pledgeable assets. The model also shows how investment distortions towards more liquid, safer assets...

We model the interplay between corporate liquidity and asset reallocation opportunities. Our model implies that financially distressed firms may be acquired by liquid firms in their industries even when there are no operational synergies associated with the merger. We call these transactions...

We model the interplay between cash and debt policies in the presence of financial constraints. While saving cash allows financially constrained firms to hedge future investment against income shortfalls, reducing current debt (saving debt capacity) is a more effective way to boost investment in...

When firms are able to pledge their assets as collateral, investment and borrowing become endogenous: pledgeable assets support more borrowings that in turn allow for further investment in pledgeable assets. We show that this credit multiplier has an important impact on investment when firms...

When firms are able to pledge their assets as collateral, investment and borrowing become endogenous: pledgeable assets support more borrowings that in turn allow for further investment in pledgeable assets. We show that this credit multiplier has an important impact on investment when firms...

There is ample empirical evidence of a negative relation between internal funds (profitability) and the demand for external funds (debt issuance). This negative relation has been interpreted as evidence for external financing costs arising from capital market frictions such as asymmetric...

This paper shows novel evidence on the mechanism through which financial constraints amplify fluctuations in asset prices and credit. It does so using contractual features of housing finance. Among agents whose housing demand is constrained by the availability of collateral, those who can borrow...

We use the link between financial constraints and a firm's demand for liquidity to develop a new test of the effect of financial constraints on firm policies. The effect of financial constraints can be captured by a firm's propensity to save cash out of incremental cash inflows (the quot;cash...