Extensive Margin Adjustment of Multi-Product Firm and Risk Diversification

By Carlos Carvalho, Gee Hee Hong, Jing Zhou

June 30, 2017

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Carlos Carvalho, Gee Hee Hong, and Jing Zhou. Extensive Margin Adjustment of Multi-Product Firm and Risk Diversification, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

Product scope adjustment is a key mechanism through which multi-product firms achieve efficient resource allocations. In this paper, we take a novel perspective to study firms’ product scope adjustment behavior through the lens of asset pricing. Using a unique panel scanner data set containing detailed information on products, matched with the financial information of their manufacturers, we find that multi-product firms with higher product turnover have lower financial risks and lower risk premia. To understand this channel, we propose a stylized model with a time-dependent (Calvo-type) product turnover rate to highlight the ’risk absorption channel’ of product scope adjustment. In response to an economy-wide shock, a firm that can adjust its product scope more flexibly shows lower excess equity returns and lower asset volatility.

Subject: Asset prices, Consumption, Financial institutions, Income, Labor, National accounts, Prices, Stocks

Keywords: Asset prices, Consumption, Creation rate, Destruction rate, Firm dynamics, Income, Margin adjustment, Mi mathcolor, Multi-product firm, Multi-product firms, Product scope, Risk diversification, Stocks, Substitution effect, WP

Publication Details

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44
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Working Paper No. 2017/146
Stock No:

WPIEA2017146
ISBN:

9781484303764
ISSN:

1018-5941

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