Private Equity and Public Good
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Private investment and public equity returns
Because of external financing costs, private business owners often need to self-finance new investment projects. These self-financing needs create an incentive for business owners to hold financial assets whose payoffs are positively correlated with self-financing needs. If this effect is aggregated, expected returns on financial assets should be negatively correlated with aggregate private inv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dissent
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1946-0910
DOI: 10.1353/dss.2008.0051