Growth Opportunities and Technology Shocks

We propose a theoretically motivated procedure for measuring heterogeneity in firms’ growth opportunities and document its empirical properties. The term “growth opportunities” refers to the component of a firm’s market value that cannot be attributed to its assets in place. This decomposition...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kogan, Leonid, Papanikolaou, Dimitris
Other Authors: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64452
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9387-9728
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