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Stefano Sacchetto (IESE)

4 December 2017 @ 12:45

 

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4 December 2017
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12:45
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“How Costly Are External Financing and Agency for Private Firms?”

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We estimate the magnitude of external financing costs and manager-shareholder conflicts for large U.S. private firms, and compare the results of the estimation to those from a sample of comparable public firms. Large private firms face marginal equity issuance costs for the first million dollar raised that are 2% higher than public firms. However, managerial diversion of cash is more severe in public firms, as managers of public firms can consume as a private benefit a fraction of corporate cash that is four times higher than managers of private firms. Our structural estimation results also show that, in addition to agency and external financing, large private firms differ from public firms along other economic dimensions. Counterfactual experiments provide new insights into why many large firms decide to remain private.