with firm-level accounting information for 2002-2004, this paper examines the presence of systematic distortions in capital … systematic comparison of investment efficiency among wholly and partially state-owned, wholly and partially foreignowned, and … investment intensity by 5 percent of GDP without sacrificing its economic growth (and hence deliver a greater improvement to its …

This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country’s perspective. The framework is one in which … this framework, the paper shows that productive investment may increase or decrease the bargaining power of the debtor …

This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment … investment-cash flow sensitivity, which decreased substantially after the crisis when banks changed their expectations about the … value of assets on firms'' balance sheets. This paper deepens our understanding of firms'' investment behavior …

The recovery of private investment in Italy has lagged its euro area peers over the past decade. This paper examines … capacity to invest. Empirical analysis provides evidence for the impact of wages on investment at the sectoral and firm levels …. Sectoral wage growth seems unrelated to sectoral productivity growth, but is negatively associated with investment. Firm …

-pronged approach to investigate the relationship between corporate leverage and fixed investment spending. The empirical analysis …

In this paper I apply firm-level analysis to examine how the Brexit process has affected business investment in the UK … had a considerable and statistically significant negative impact on firm investment in the UK after the referendum. At the … same time, the post-referendum sterling depreciation has likely contributed positively to investment expenditure by more …

irreversible investment are more exposed to policy uncertainty. In sectors with large irreversible investment EPU has a greater … effect on growth, investment, and leverage. The results are robust to different definitions of investment irreversibility …

the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on private firm investment in Ukraine-a large transition economy. Controlling …

There is increasing emphasis on the importance of efficient financial markets for sustained real investment and …''s investment decisions. The purpose of this paper is to model the impact of financial reforms on borrowing constraints faced by … firms and to test the impact of financial reforms on the investment decisions of firms in Turkey. To do so, the paper builds …

This paper investigates whether balance-sheet conditions of firms and their main banks matter for firm investment … facing liquidity constraints; these firms’ balance-sheet conditions (the debt asset ratios) affected their investment from …-sheet conditions constrained these firms’ investment from about 1993. These findings highlight the potential macroeconomic impact and …