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Investment Decisions of Nonprofit Firms: Evidence from Hospitals
Published: 11/24/2014 | DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12234
MANUEL ADELINO, KATHARINA LEWELLEN, ANANT SUNDARAM
This paper examines investment choices of nonprofit hospitals. It tests how shocks to cash flows caused by the performance of the hospitals’ financial assets affect hospital expenditures. Capital expenditures increase, on average, by 10 to 28 cents for every dollar received from financial assets. The sensitivity is similar to that found earlier for shareholder‐owned corporations. Executive compensation, other salaries, and perks do not respond significantly to cash flow shocks. Hospitals with an apparent tendency to overspend on medical procedures do not exhibit higher investment‐cash flow sensitivities. The sensitivities are higher for hospitals that appear financially constrained.
Firm Age, Investment Opportunities, and Job Creation
Published: 02/18/2017 | DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12495
MANUEL ADELINO, SONG MA, DAVID ROBINSON
New firms are an important source of job creation, but the underlying economic mechanisms for why this is so are not well understood. Using an identification strategy that links shocks to local income to job creation in the nontradable sector, we ask whether job creation arises more through new firm creation or through the expansion of existing firms. We find that new firms account for the bulk of net employment creation in response to local investment opportunities. We also find significant gross job creation and destruction by existing firms, suggesting that positive local shocks accelerate churn.