The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ouimet, Paige; Simintzi, Elena; Ye, Kailei
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0893-9454
• DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhae080
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 1291
• 关键词: CHRONIC PAIN; ABUSE; association; constraints; analgesics; addiction; EPIDEMIC

摘要

We show a negative effect of opioid prescriptions on subsequent individual employment among employers in our sample using doctor-opioid-prescribing propensity as our instrument. This finding has implications for firms that must now contend with lower local labor supply. We find a negative relationship between opioid prescriptions and subsequent establishment growth. However, firms respond to labor shortages by investing more in technology, replacing the relatively scarcer labor with capital, especially when they are not financially constrained. We find positive abnormal returns, upon the passage of state laws intended to limit opioid prescriptions, that are driven by firms more reliant on labor.