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Weighed down by debt? Revisiting the link between corporate debt overhang and investment

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Bruno Albuquerque. I find that persistent debt booms led financially constrained firms to cut back on investment, across both capital expenditures and intangible assets. Vulnerable firms tend to have weaker fundamentals, face high corporate financing costs, have lower ICRs , and invest less ( Albuquerque (2021) ). Main results.

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Medicare Advantage Change Could Lead To Payments Opportunities

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In May, the company accounted a $50 million Series C funding round led by Naspers Ventures, with existing investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz also taking part. The company will use that fresh capital in large part to fund expansion of its caregiver network. That round brought the company’s total funding to $115 million.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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As New Mexico’s capital city, Albuquerque naturally put in a bid, but the state’s more southern offering may prove more interesting, as it straddles the U.S.-Mexico Doña Ana County. Mexico border, making this a binational proposal.

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The declining elasticity of US housing supply

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Bruno Albuquerque, Knut Are Aastveit and André Anundsen. Bruno Albuquerque works in the Bank’s Macro-Financial Risks Division, Knut Are Aastveit works at Norges Bank and André Anundsen works at Oslo Metropolitan University. The consequences of lower supply elasticities. or leave a comment below.

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