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Do Internal Funds Play An Important Role In Financing Decisions For Constrained Firms?, Barun Roychowdhury
Do Internal Funds Play An Important Role In Financing Decisions For Constrained Firms?, Barun Roychowdhury
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In this paper, I discuss the importance of internal funds for corporate investment among financially constrained firms. I use the paper ‘Financing Constraints and Corporate Investments’ by Fazzari, Hubbard and Petersen.as a base for my framework. I focus on a specific paper refuting their findings and their response in order to fully understand the benefits and costs of the framework. I then apply the original framework to a recent sample that covers the Great Recession to see the results of the initial paper are still valid today and if the recent recession and elongated recovery had an even more adverse …