Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment / Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chari, Anusha.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Henry, Peter Blair.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12186.

NBER working paper series no. w12186

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.

Summary:

We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points. Cross-sectional changes in investment are significantly correlated with the signals about fundamentals embedded in the stock price changes that occur upon liberalization. Panel data estimations show that a 1-percentage point increase in a firm's expected future sales growth predicts a 4.1-percentage point increase in its investment; country-specific changes in the cost of capital predict a 2.3-percentage point increase in investment; firm-specific changes in risk premia do not affect investment.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2006.