Corporate Cash Flow and Its Uses
Thomas King and
Timothy Larach
Chicago Fed Letter, 2016, No 368
Abstract:
We decompose corporate cash flow into its primary components to examine how funds are being internally allocated and to elucidate current trends in corporate behavior. By historical standards, capital investment has been low and shareholder payouts have been high over the past few years, although these patterns do not seem so abnormal once recent economic and financial conditions are factored in. That said, corporate debt levels are now somewhat higher than we would expect given the rather tepid economic recovery from the Great Recession.
Keywords: Cash flow; expenditures; capital investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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