We study the relationship between corporate debt, corporate risk and firm-level investment, using a sample of 25 …,000 listed companies across 47 countries over the last two decades. We find higher leverage reduces investment but show the … leverage observed during the last decade and as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, physical investment is expected to remain at …

risk. This result has a strong policy implication, in that it shows that an investment stimulus pack is expected neither to …