WHAT DRIVES INVESTMENT-CASH FLOW SENSITIVITY AROUND THE WORLD?

Motivated by ongoing debates on investment-cash flow sensitivity (ICFS), its relation to firm-level financial constraints and its documented decline in the U.S., we investigate the determinants of cross-country and time-series variation in ICFS. Using firm-level data across 45 countries for the 1991–2010 period, we document a strong decline in ICFS for both developed and emerging