# Professor Alexander Ljungqvist's research on private vs. public company investments is highlighted

1 Faculty News May 27, 2015 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/05/27/big-firms-increasingly-resort-to-corporate-cocaine/) -- "They find that, keeping company size and industry constant, private U.S. companies invest nearly twice as much as those listed on the stock market: 6.8% of total assets versus just 3.7 %."

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