causal relationship among sales and cash flow on the one hand and investment and R&D on the other, using three large panels … investment and R&D are more highly sensitive to cash flow and sales in the United States than in France and Japan. Corresponding …, both investment and R&D predict both cash flow and sales positively in the United States, while the impact is somewhat more …

Evidence on international capital flows suggests that foreign direct investment (FDI) is less volatile than other …

The paper examines the interpretation of firms' investment-cash flow sensitivity as an artifact of financial market … investment-cash flow sensitivity is discussed as well as some of the macroeconomic implications of financial market imperfections. …

set of facts about the amplitude of inventory investment and its sectoral and time heterogeneity. …

in capital price and levels of aggregate investment and output. I present a model economy where the industry-level policy …-related investment cost is uncertain. Holding the average one-period investment cost constant, policy uncertainty leads to a higher … capital price and subsequently to lower levels of long-run aggregate investment and output. Policy uncertainty also makes …

In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using micro data on the population of … models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across categories of ownership and with the legal status of firms …. Our analysis of depreciation leads us to the conclusion that replacement investment displays a similar pattern in many …

This paper revisits the question if the user cost of capital plays an important role for investment decisions using … intervals are more reliable when model parameters approach the bounds of their support. I use aggregate investment data from six … accounts for less than 10 percent of the variance in investment under the 99- percent confidence level; this result is robust …

We review the changes in modelling strategy and econometric methodology when estimating a firm-level investment … correction, traditional between- and within-firm estimation versus GMM estimation, the investment behavior of French firms versus … that of U.S. firms, and investment behavior today versus ten to twenty years ago. Although the econometric advances have …

The anemic U.S. economic recovery and the threat of a double-dip recession stem from the weakness of investment, due to ….e., the all-time-high indebtedness in the face of falling asset prices) are preventing investment from picking up and are …