External Equity Financing Shocks, Financial Flows, and Asset Prices

Frederico Belo, Xiaoji Lin and Fan Yang

The Review of Financial Studies, 2019, vol. 32, issue 9, 3500-3543

Abstract: We develop a dynamic model with time variation in external equity financing costs and show that variation in these costs is important for the model to quantitatively capture the joint dynamics of firms’ asset prices, real quantities, and financial flows in the U.S. economy. Growth firms and high investment firms are less risky in equilibrium, because they can substitute more easily debt financing for equity financing when it becomes more costly to raise external equity, which are high marginal utility states. Using a model-implied proxy of aggregate equity issuance cost shocks, we provide empirical support for the model’s economic mechanism. Received August 7, 2017; editorial decision September 24, 2018 by Editor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online

Date: 2019
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