Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market-listed firms. To do so, we compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms, using a new data source on private U.S. firms and assuming for identification that closely held private fi...

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Published in:The Review of financial studies 2015-02, Vol.28 (2), p.342-390
Main Authors: Asker, John, Farre-Mensa, Joan, Ljungqvist, Alexander
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Language:English
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