Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101865 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8285
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort to clarify the role of cash flow in examining the impact of capital-market imperfections. It is revealed that a firm's constrained credit status changes with the improvement of its efficiency. The results further reveal that financially constrained firm's investment is comparatively more sensitive to cash flow, but this sensitivity is negatively and significantly related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be solely driven by measurement error in investment opportunity, but may still be interpreted as a consequence of imperfect substitutability between internal and external financing arising from the capital market imperfections.
Subjects: 
asymmetric information
financial constraints
switching regression
JEL: 
C34
D92
G14
L21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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