macroeconomic indicators, to provide a better understanding of corporates' investment obstacles. We investigate impediments to … corporate investment across the EU. We use a novel dataset merging firm level data from the European Investment Bank Investment … derived from aggregating qualitative answers on impediments to investment at the country level correlate relatively well with …

In Romania, the share of firms carrying out investment is amongst the lowest in the European Union. This is despite … on information from two surveys - the EIB Investment Survey and a survey on access to finance conducted by the National … Bank of Romania - to analyse the reasons for this subdued corporate investment activity. It also contributes to the debate …

This paper reviews the data quality of the EIB Group Survey on Investment and Investment Finance (EIBIS). It finds that … the corporate investment situation in the EU. This result is predicated on the following observations: 1) the ORBIS …