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Growth Opportunities, Strategic Savings, And The Dot-Com Boom And Bust

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  • Nathaniel Arnold
  • Jihad C. Dagher

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type="main" xml:id="ecin12222-abs-0001"> Data from the dot-com boom-bust episode suggest that growth opportunities played an important role in explaining firms' financing strategy during this understudied episode. The low leverage of this sector was mainly driven by high growth firms which increased their leverage following the crash despite suffering a much larger fall in their market value. We present a parsimonious dynamic firm financing model where growth opportunities alone can generate the heterogeneous patterns in the financing and performance between high and low growth information technology firms prior to and following the market crash. The calibrated model also sheds light on the role played by monetary policy during that episode. ( JEL G32, E22, E5)

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  • Nathaniel Arnold & Jihad C. Dagher, 2015. "Growth Opportunities, Strategic Savings, And The Dot-Com Boom And Bust," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 53(4), pages 1850-1871, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecinqu:v:53:y:2015:i:4:p:1850-1871
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    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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