Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81911
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 208
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment and Tobin's q. Afirm is financed partly by insiders, who control its assets, and partly by outside investors. When their wealth is scarce, insiders earn a rate of return higher than the market rate of return, i.e., they receive a quasi rent on invested capital. This rent is priced into the value of the firm, so Tobin's q is driven by two forces: changes in the value of invested capital, and changes in the valu of the insiders' future rents per unit of capital. This weakens the correlation between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow.
Subjects: 
financial constraints
investment
Tobin's q
limited enforcement
JEL: 
E22
E30
E44
G30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
394.08 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.