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Profs John Asker and Alexander Ljungqvist's research on investment patterns of public vs. private firms is mentioned
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Excerpt from International Business Times -- "Using Sageworks’ data from 2001 to 2011, researchers from New York University, Harvard and NBER found in a July 31 paper that private firms invest significantly more than publicly traded companies of similar size and industries. Private companies also invest in a way that’s 3.5 times more responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news, said the report’s authors, John Asker from NYU’s economics department and business school; Joan Farre-Mensa from Harvard’s business school; and Alexander Ljungqvist from NYU and NBER."
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