Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act

Petersen thanks the Heizer Center at Northwestern University's Kellogg School for support. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors. We appreciate the suggestions and advice of Jerry Hoberg, Vojislav Maksimovic, David Matsa, Gordon Phillips, Michael Roberts, Jun Yang, and seminar participants at Aalto University, American Finance Association Meetings, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Baruch College, Boston University, Duke University, Drexel University, Emory University, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Georgia State University, Indiana University, London Business School, London School of Economics, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Queens University, Rotterdam School of Management, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Tilberg University, Washington University in St Louis, the Universities of Arizona, British Columbia, California-San Diego, Maryland, Montreal, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (Wharton), Southern California, Texas at Dallas, Virginia, and Yale University for their helpful comments. The research assistance of Katherine Ashley, Julie Chen, Michelle Lee, Roxanne Luk, Ryan Morrisroe, Joyce Pang, Kenny Quattrocchi, Alex Williamson, Lu Xie, Shirley Xu, and Calvin Zhang is greatly appreciated. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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