A q$q$ Theory of Internal Capital Markets
提出了一个多部门公司在外部融资成本高时的动态投资、分拆、融资和风险管理模型,揭示了部门风险如何影响资源分配,以及分拆和多元化对流动性和公司价值的作用。
ABSTRACT We propose a tractable model of dynamic investment, spinoffs, financing, and risk management for a multidivision firm facing costly external finance. Our analysis formalizes the following insights: (i) Within‐firm resource allocation is based not only on divisions' productivity, as in winner‐picking models, but also their risk; (ii) firms may voluntarily spin off productive divisions to increase liquidity; (iii) diversification can reduce firm value in low‐liquidity states, as it increases the spinoff cost and hampers liquidity management; (iv) corporate socialism makes liquidity less valuable; and (v) division investment is determined by the ratio between marginal and marginal value of cash.