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Bakou Mertens
@bakoumertens.bsky.social
Econ PhD student @Ghent University.
Working with firm-level data on corporate finance without the self-serving blinds.
=> Corporate financialization, inequality and climate, but Interested in macro in general. Blogging at bakoumertens.quarto.pub
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This likely has real consequences. When firms maintain stable payouts despite declining profits, they must either resort to cutting investments, R&D expenditures, or labor costs or to taking on higher levels of (unproductive) debt.
BM
Bakou Mertens
@bakoumertens.bsky.social
Econ PhD student @Ghent University.
Working with firm-level data on corporate finance without the self-serving blinds.
=> Corporate financialization, inequality and climate, but Interested in macro in general. Blogging at bakoumertens.quarto.pub
23 followers92 following4 posts