Toni M. Whited

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Publications

 

"Which Firms Follow the Market? An Analysis of Corporate Investment Decisions," May 2008, forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies. (with Tor-Erik Bakke)

"The Corporate Propensity to Save," January 2008, forthcoming, Journal of Finance. (with Leigh A. Riddick)

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"How Costly is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation." (with Christopher Hennessy), Journal of Finance. 62 (2007): 1705-1745. (formerly titled "Beyond Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities: Using Indirect Inference to Estimate Costs of External Funds")

Winner of the 2007 Brattle Prize for Distinguished Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance.

"Spin-offs, Divestitures, and Conglomerate Investment," (with Gonul Colak), Review of Financial Studies 20 (2007): 557-595.

"Testing Q Theory with Financing Frictions," Journal of Financial Economics 83 (2007): 691-717 (with Christopher Hennessy and Amnon Levy)

"On the Accuracy of Different Measures of Q," Financial Management 35 (2006): 5-33. (with Timothy Erickson, lead article)

"External Finance Constraints and the Intertemporal Pattern of Intermittent Investment," Journal of Financial Economics 81 (2006): 467-502. (lead article) 

"Financial Constraints Risk." Review of Financial Studies 19 (2006): 531-559. (with Guojun Wu)

"Proxy Quality Thresholds: Theory and Applications." Finance Research Letters 2 (2005): 131-151 (with Timothy Erickson)

"Debt Dynamics," Journal of Finance 60 (2005): 1129-1165. (with Christopher Hennessy)

Winner of the 2005 Brattle Prize for Outstanding Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance.

"Two-Step GMM Estimation of the Errors-in-Variables Model using High-Order Moments," Econometric Theory 18 (2002): 776-799. (with Timothy Erickson)

"Is It Inefficient Investment that Causes the Diversification Discount?" Journal of Finance 56 (2001): 1667-92. (Nominated for the Brattle Prize)

"Fixed Costs of Adjustment, Coordination, and Industry Investment," Review of Economics and Statistics 83 (2001): 628-637. (with Joanne Doyle)

"Measurement Error and the Relationship between Investment and q," Journal of Political Economy 108 (2000): 1027-57. (with Timothy Erickson)

"Why Do Investment Euler Equations Fail?" Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 16 (1998): 469-478.

"The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment: Some Stylized Facts," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 28 (1996): 64-83. (with John V. Leahy)

"Internal Finance and Firm Investment," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 27 (1995): 683-701. (with R. Glenn Hubbard and Anil K. Kashyap)

"Problems with Identifying Adjustment Costs from Regressions of Investment on Q," Economics Letters 46 (1994): 339-344.

"Debt, Liquidity Constraints, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Panel Data," Journal of Finance 47 (1992): 1425-1460.

"Investment and Financial Asset Accumulation," Journal of Financial Intermediation 1 (1991): 307-334.

"U.S. Corporate Leverage: Developments in 1987 and 1988," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (1990): 255-278. (with Ben S. Bernanke and John Y. Campbell)