between investment and uncertainty across and within countries. For example, while investment in France, Italy and Spain … structural vector autoregression model to study the relationship between different sources of uncertainty and investment in … machinery and equipment as a proxy for business investment. We document strong heterogeneity and asymmetries in the relationship …

between investment and uncertainty across and within countries. For example, while investment in France, Italy and Spain … structural vector autoregression model to study the relationship between different sources of uncertainty and investment in … machinery and equipment as a proxy for business investment. We document strong heterogeneity and asymmetries in the relationship …

This paper is a small summary of a much broader project that analyzes the collective investment institutions in Spain …

affects firms' investment decisions. Our results show that uncertainty is negatively correlated with investment. Secondly, it …

Investment fell sharply in the euro area after the financial crisis and has not yet returned to pre-crisis levels in … investment dynamics. By doing so, we compare five prominent uncertainty proxies put forward in the recent literature: the … type of uncertainty proxy, we document pronounced negative investment responses to uncertainty shocks. We further show that …

Investment fell sharply in the euro area after the financial crisis and has not yet returned to pre-crisis levels in … investment dynamics. By doing so, we compare five prominent uncertainty proxies put forward in the recent literature: the … type of uncertainty proxy, we document pronounced negative investment responses to uncertainty shocks. We further show that …

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 …

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 …

investment by 24.3 to 48.5% during the COVID-19 crisis, compared to 19% during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Using historical … faced by corporates between investment and leverage. It also suggests that, should the estimated gap in net revenues … materialise as the result of the crisis, the decline in corporate investment would likely be within the computed ranges. …

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 …