The financing behaviour of private US firms has been somewhat neglected in the firm dynamics literature. This column presents a new dataset for studying these firms’ behaviour and explores how the Great Recession affected their growth. The results show substantial heterogeneity in leverage by firm age and size among private firms, but not among public firms.
Emin Dinlersoz, Henry Hyatt, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Veronika Penciakova, 09 January 2019
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