level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are … importantly, the cash flow sensitivity of investment is lower in countries with better-developed financial markets. This suggests …

level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are … importantly, the cash flow sensitivity of investment is lower in countries with better-developed financial markets. This suggests …

This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area … countries. Using firm-level data from 2005-2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derive … thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …

their investment more after the crisis. This negative effect is stronger for firms linked to weak banks with exposures to … corporate investment …

corporate investment and its financing structure. We identify shocks to overall demand and loan supply with sign and impact … restrictions. Although tightened financial conditions have adversely impacted corporate investment during and after the sovereign …

, though cannot equally well capture differences in the investment ratios. The conclusion that we draw is that consumption …

; hypothesis), (ii) preference shocks (quot;savings glutquot; hypothesis), and (iii) investment shocks (quot;investment droughtquot … part of the variation in imbalances and financial market prices. We find that savings shocks and investment shocks explain …

sets of results. First, house price returns in Europe are generally characterized by three (high, medium and low) phases …

both bank and country-level data. As outright bank failures have been rare in Europe, the paper introduces a novel dataset …