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| Author | Xin Chang, Sudipto Dasgupta, George Wong, Jiaquan Yao |
| Content | We study how firms allocate cash flow by estimating the cash-flow sensitivities of various
uses of cash flow.We decompose cash flow into a transitory and a permanent component and
focus on the allocation of the transitory component, which by construction contains little
information about future growth opportunities. We find that more financially constrained
firms allocate more transitory cash flow to cash savings and direct less toward investment
than do less constrained firms, consistent with constrained firms accumulating liquidity
to buffer against future financial constraints. We also illustrate several methodological
advantages of our approach over alternative methods in previous studies. |
| JEL-Codes | G31, G32 |
| Keywords | Cash Flow Sensitivity, Internal Cash Flow, Higher-order GMM, Beveridge-Nelson Decomposition |
