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Do corporate policies follow a life-cycle?
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posted on 2016-08-01, 00:00 authored by R Faff, W C Kwok, Edward Podolski, G WongWe examine whether corporate investment, financing, and cash policies are interdependent and follow a predictable pattern in line with the firm life-cycle. We find that investments and equity issuance decrease with firm life-cycle, while debt issuance and cash holdings increase in the introduction and growth stages and decrease in the mature and shake-out/decline stages of the firm's life-cycle. These results are robust after using various proxies for life-cycle and controlling for firm, CEO and board level characteristics. Collectively, our results show that corporate policies follow a firm life-cycle.
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Journal of banking and financeVolume
69Pagination
95 - 107Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0378-4266Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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