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Leverage over the Life Cycle and Implications for Firm Growth and Shock Responsiveness / Emin Dinlersoz, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Henry Hyatt, Veronika Penciakova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dinlersoz, Emin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25226.
- NBER working paper series no. w25226
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- We study the leverage of U.S. firms over their life-cycles, and the connection between firm leverage, firm growth, and aggregate shocks. We construct a new dataset that combines private and public firms' balance sheets with firm-level data from U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) for the period 2005-2012. Public and private firms exhibit different leverage dynamics over their life-cycles. Firm age and size are systematically related to leverage for private firms, but not for public firms. We show that private firms, but not public ones, deleveraged during the Great Recession, and that this deleveraging is associated with a reduction in firm revenue and employment growth. Exploiting sectoral variation, we find that the leverage dynamics of firms is also relevant for aggregate fluctuations.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2018.
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