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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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One of the latest changes to federal rules regarding non-medical home care services could provide more business opportunity to firms that serve that market and handle such backend tasks as billing and payroll. And it could turn into a lucrative opportunity for companies active in this market, too. In April, the U.S.

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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Jeff Bezos missed a major marketing opportunity there (as if Amazon needs it). 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 How is the race to be Amazon’s second home city not a reality show? Doña Ana County.

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The declining elasticity of US housing supply

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Bruno Albuquerque, Knut Are Aastveit and André Anundsen. In other words, our hypothesis is that home builders may have become less price responsive compared to the housing market expansion in the run-up to the Great Recession. and (3) what are the potential implications for the transmission of housing demand shocks?

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