2022
DOI: 10.1186/s40854-022-00379-w
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Raising capital amid economic policy uncertainty: an empirical investigation

Abstract: This paper investigates how economic policy uncertainty affects firms’ frequency and their choice of financial instruments to raise capital. By applying a three-step sequential framework over a sample of 6834 publicly listed US non-financial firms, we find that during periods of high economic uncertainty, firms raise capital more frequently with a preference toward debt financing. The empirical findings suggest that firms prefer debt financing over equity financing to avoid ownership dilution and high equity p… Show more

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“…In the period from 2016 to 2019 there are less fluctuations in all of the Divisia monetary aggregates which shows more clearly in the visual boundary recurrence plots with large regions with strong and medium recurrent points. This study provides further support for the results in that the broad Divisia monetary aggregates, exhibiting less fluctuation than the narrow Divisia monetary aggregates, could be used for monetary policy and business cycle analysis and as part of financial monetary policies (see Ashraf et al (2022) and Singh et al (2018)). In particular, the new CFS Divisia monetary aggregates can and should play an important role, either as intermediate targets or indicator variables, for the conduct of monetary policy, in addition to that of the short-term nominal interest rate.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 75%
“…In the period from 2016 to 2019 there are less fluctuations in all of the Divisia monetary aggregates which shows more clearly in the visual boundary recurrence plots with large regions with strong and medium recurrent points. This study provides further support for the results in that the broad Divisia monetary aggregates, exhibiting less fluctuation than the narrow Divisia monetary aggregates, could be used for monetary policy and business cycle analysis and as part of financial monetary policies (see Ashraf et al (2022) and Singh et al (2018)). In particular, the new CFS Divisia monetary aggregates can and should play an important role, either as intermediate targets or indicator variables, for the conduct of monetary policy, in addition to that of the short-term nominal interest rate.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 75%
“…Recently, further studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on policy and economy in general, and entrepreneurship in particular, have been published, including a number of special issues ( Ashraf et al, 2022 ; Belitski et al, 2022 ; Grassi and Fantaccini, 2022 ; Narayan, 2022 ; Taylan et al, 2022 ). These recent publications shed light on the economic effects of the pandemic by looking at the macro- and micro-economic effects on economic policy and the survivability of entrepreneurial start-ups as well as the role of financial support, public funding for well-being in both developed and developing countries.…”
Section: The Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For SOEs with concentrated ownership, managers may prefer to use debt instruments for financing [86]. Especially in periods of economic uncertainty, companies prefer debt financing to avoid equity dilution [87]. Managers of SOEs tend to be opportunistic; have fewer incentives to change the financing costs; and are less likely to adjust financing channels, improve the efficiency of SOEs, or maximize the firm's value [88].…”
Section: Moderating Effect Of Ownership Typementioning
confidence: 99%