A Panel Analysis of Liquidity Constraints and Firm Investment
流动性约束与企业投资的面板分析
The issue of financial constraints on company investment is revisited using the U.S. panel data of 561 firms from 1971–1992. A number of economically meaningful factors are discovered to partition firms into relatively homogeneous groups. A mixed fixed-and random-coefficients framework is then used to capture unobserved heterogeneity within groups. The prediction criterion is used to select the final specification and evaluate the importance of financial constraints on…