[eng] Financial systems and growth : the effects of 'short-termism. . This article compares two types of financial systems in the framework of an innovation-based endogenous growth model. In one case, the financial system is represented by a very large numer of small lenders. In another case,...

[fre] Cet article propose un modèle de croissance endogène dans lequel on intro­duit des intermédiaires financiers en concurrence imparfaite et une rémunération du capital soumise à un choc macroéconomique. Les anticipations rationnelles des ménages sur le risque de faillites bancaires...

[fre] Abstracts. GROWTH AND PUBLIC CAPITAL IN "DEBT-OBERHANG" ECONOMIES. bruno amable, jean-bernard chatelain. The consequences of a possible credit rationing are considered in an endogenous growth model. When the financial constraint is binding, the rate of growth is determined by the rate of...

This paper analyzes the effect of financial constraints on the investment behaviour of French industrial firms testing Euler equations on various sub-samples over the period 1993-1996. More precisely, we test the model with an increasing cost of borrowing as leverage increases including an...

Using a large panel of 6,946 French manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the effect of the cost of capital and on cash flow on investment from 1990 to 1999. We compare several specifications of neo-classical demand for capital, taking into account transitory dynamics. The user cost of...

In this paper we present comparable results on the determinants of firms' investment and their link to monetary policy. The results have been obtained by the Eurosystem Monetary Transmission Network. This network has produced a series of papers in which the use of micro data permits estimating...

En modélisant un arbitrage intertemporel, le désendettement est un choix rationnel en présence d'un rendement marginal des nouveaux investissements inférieur au taux d'intérêt réel sur l'encours de la dette et supérieur au coût d'opportunité des placements des fonds internes. Dans ce...

This paper surveys issues with respect to the structural modelling of econometric tests of investment facing financial constraints, to their link with firms data and asset prices, and to their consequences for macroeconomic modelling. The key issue is to provide conditions which support the...

This paper provides the explicit expression of investment facing a binding debt ceiling and the explicit expression of the Lagrange multipliers related to the binding debt ceiling constraint. This result allows to check for misspecification of the parameterizations of these Lagrange multipliers...

Dans le cadre d´un modèle de croissance endogène fondé sur l´innovation, cet article compare deux modes de financement de l´économie. Dans un cas, le financement est assuré par une multitude de petits prêteurs, dans l´autre, une seule grande banque fournit l´ensemble des prêts. Il...