The Deep-Pocket Effect of Internal Capital Markets

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Xavier Boutin

CREST(LEI) and European Commission (DG Competition - Chief Economist Team)

Giacinta Cestone

Bayes Business School, City University London; ECGI

Chiara Fumagalli

Bocconi University - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Giovanni Pica

Idep, facoltà di economia; University of Milan - Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM); University of Milan - Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA); CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)

Nicolas Andre Benigno Serrano-Velarde

Bocconi University

Date Written: September 24, 2012

Abstract

We provide evidence suggesting that incumbent firms' access to group deep pockets has a negative impact on entry in product markets. Relying on a unique French data set on business groups, our paper shows that entry in manufacturing industries is negatively related to the cash reserves hoarded by incumbent-affiliated groups. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that the impact on entry of group cash holdings is more important in environments where financial constraints are pronounced and in more financially dependent sectors. Our findings suggest that internal capital markets operate within corporate groups and affect the product market behavior of affiliated firms by mitigating financial constraints.

Keywords: Business Groups, Cash Holdings, Internal Capital Markets, Market Entry

JEL Classification: G32, G38, L41

Suggested Citation

Boutin, Xavier and Cestone, Giacinta and Fumagalli, Chiara and Pica, Giovanni and Serrano-Velarde, Nicolas Andre Benigno, The Deep-Pocket Effect of Internal Capital Markets (September 24, 2012). Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Paolo Baffi Centre Research Paper No. 2011-92 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1868761 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1868761

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