We study the relationships between firm financial structure and growth for a large sample of Italian firms (1998-2003). We expand upon existing analyses testing whether liquidity constraints affect firm performance by considering among growth determinants also firm debt structure. Panel...

The objective of our paper is to investigate how the access to finance affects the creation of new business in EU, by identifying the relationship between several indicators, measuring the access to finance, the specifics of business environment, and the dynamics of new business creation. Our...

This paper explores the existence and importance of financing constraints for R&D investments in large EU and US manufacturing companies over the 2000-2007 period. The main results obtained by estimating error-correction equations suggest that the sensitivity of R&D investments to cash flow...