Aggregate External Financing and Savings Waves

Previously circulated as "Aggregate Issuance and Savings Waves." We thank seminar participants and discussants at Kellogg, UCLA, Yale, Columbia, University of Michigan, Stanford, NYU, the NBER Corporate Finance Meeting, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Financial Frictions in Macroeconomics Conference, the UBC Winter Finance Conference, the SED Annual Meeting, the NBER Capital Markets and the Economy Meeting, the LAEF Advances in Macro-Finance conference, the AEA Annual Meeting, and the WFA Annual Meeting, for helpful comments. Eisfeldt gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Fink Center for Finance & Investments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• September 2, 2014
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