Cash Flow and Outcomes

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As a firm’s cash flow increases, it is expected that its investment in potential revenue-generating opportunities will also increase. However, recent research examining the auctions of oil and gas leases shows that greater cash flow does not lead to investment in a greater number of tracts, a larger amount of acreage, or more productive, revenue-generating tracts. Instead, greater cash flow leads to paying more for leases that are not more productive.

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