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Financial Constraints Risk
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We construct an index of firms' external finance constraints via GMM estimation of an investment Euler equation. Unlike the commonly used KZ index, ours is consistent with firm characteristics associated with external finance constraints. Constrained firms' returns move together, suggesting the existence of a financial constraints factor. This factor earns a positive but insignificant average return. Much of the variation in this factor cannot be explained by the Fama-French and momentum factors. Cross-sectional regressions of returns on our index and other firm characteristics show that constrained firms earn higher returns and that the financial-constraints effect dominates the size effect.
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- Authors
- Whited, T. M., & Wu, G.
- Venue
- Review of Financial Studies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 531-559
- ISSN
- 0893-9454 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-7368
- OpenAlex
- W3121786372
- Cited by
- 3,669
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 51.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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