Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18527 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 634
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper we investigate the analytical and empirical linkages between firms? capital investment behavior and financial frictions arising from asymmetric information, proxied by firms? liquidity and degree of uncertainty. Measures of intrinsic and extrinsic uncertainty are derived from firms? daily stock returns and S&P 500 index returns along with a CAPM-based risk measure. We employ a panel of U.S. manufacturing firm data obtained from COMPUSTAT over the 1984?2003 period. Financial frictions captured by interactions between firms? cash flow and both intrinsic and CAPM-based measures of uncertainty have a significant negative impact on firms? investment spending, while extrinsic uncertainty has a positive impact.
Subjects: 
capital investment
asymmetric information
financial frictions
uncertainty
CAPM
JEL: 
D81
E22
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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