Financial frictions investment and Tobin's q

Financial frictions investment and Tobin's q

by Guido Lorenzoni

Part of Working paper series / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics -- working paper 07-16

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We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment and Tobin's q. A firm is financed partly by insiders, who control its assets, and partly by outside investors. When their wealth is scarce, insiders earn a rate of return higher than the market rate of return, i.e., they receive a quasi-rent on invested capital. This rent is priced into the value of the firm, so Tobin's q is driven by two forces: changes in the value of invested capital, and changes in the value of the insiders' future rents per unit of capital. This weakens the correlation between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to this effect, generate realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow. Keywords: Financial constraints, investment, Tobin's q, limited enforcement. JEL Classifications: E22, E30, E44, G30.

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