This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in … investment or R&D. In identical pecifications for British firms, cash flow is informative about investment, although not about … the level of R&D spending conditional on the R&D participation decision. In the UK, we also find that investment is less …

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …

The interpretation of the significant relation between business investment spending and cash flow has been … controversial. A large body of research has found that investment/cash flow sensitivities are higher for financially constrained … with the Kaplan and Zingales critique, investment/cash flow sensitivities are lower for financially constrained firms. This …