This research studies a monopoly firm's timing and size decisions to introduce a new and partially substitutable product under demand uncertainty and financing constraint. Accessible financing resources for the investment are positively related to firm's revenues from the existing product. We...

This study investigates how credit supply shocks impact firm-level investment across the euro area using the novel AnaCredit database. Employing the methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2018), we decompose loan growth rates into four components: bank-specific, firm-specific,...

The Financial Lobster Bias describes how SMEs, driven by distorted liquidity perceptions, engage in aggressive expansion until financial breakdown occurs. Using data from 10,412 Spanish SMEs (2000-2024), this study shows that liquidity misperception-measured through two versions of the Liquidity...

This study examines the relationship between green finance and environmental sustainability in Nepal from 1990 to 2023. Constructing the index for financial development by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the relationship is explored using Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) followed...

Can a recession have a positive, long-term impact on firm innovation? A downturn represents an opportunity for firms to learn from their peers and try to understand the main drivers of resilience. If they deem R&D capital one of them, they may raise innovation in the following years, in order to...

Der Green Startup Report 2026, herausgegeben vom Borderstep Institut für Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit, analysiert die aktuelle Entwicklung der grünen Gründungslandschaft in Deutschland und setzt die seit 2013 kontinuierlich durchgeführte wissenschaftliche Beobachtung der Szene fort. Die...

In an imperfect capital market, firms face financial constraints due to information asymmetry. These constraints have a significant impact on the effectiveness of investment decisions. When either an underinvestment or overinvestment process occurs, it directly affects the firm's value. This...

We describe a novel mechanism via which multinational enterprises (MNEs) can serve to propagate productivity and credit supply shocks across borders. We augment the costly-state-verification model of Bernanke et al. [1999] with the internal capital market constraint of an MNE to analyze the...

Understanding how investors maintain positions during adverse market conditions, investment grip, is increasingly important as retail participation rises and information environments diversify. While prior research identifies demographic, psychological, and economic determinants of investment...

Die Mitte der Gesellschaft wird bei der Einkommensteuer stark belastet. Das ist ein Problem, das von nahezu allen politischen Parteien erkannt wird. Eine Reform scheitert allerdings sowohl an der Frage, wo sich die Mitte befindet, als auch an der Frage der Finanzierung. In diesem Papier...

In der vorliegenden Studie untersuchen wir die Auswirkungen des Stromnetzausbaus von 651 Milliarden Euro bis 2045 auf die künftigen Netzentgelte. Die Analyse zeigt, dass das Finanzierungskonzept eine entscheidende Rolle spielt. Die Finanzierungsoption "öffentliches Eigenkapital" (ÖÖP), in...

Die Nutzung einiger Finanzierungsquellen wird davon beeinflusst, ob der Leitung eines jungen Unternehmens Frauen angehören. So zeigen Analysen auf Basis des IAB/ZEW Gründungspanels und ergänzende Expertinneninterviews, dass rein frauengeführte Unternehmen Bankkredite seltener nutzen als rein...

Die Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union streiten wieder einmal über Geld. Genauer gesagt darüber, wie viel Geld sie für Verteidigung zahlen wollen, woher dieses Geld kommen soll und ob sie es gemeinsam ausgeben möchten. Unstrittig ist in Brüssel und den Hauptstädten, dass Europa sich...

Steht die als frei und unabhängig angenommene Kunst und Kulturarbeit im Widerspruch zu ihrer bürokratisch und an Sachzwängen orientierten Finanzierung? Das Diskussionspapier prüft diese These auf der Grundlage von anonymisierten Gruppengesprächen mit den Akteur:innen aus zwei Kunstvereinen....

This study examines the impacts of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems on financing costs from the dual perspectives of risk management and relative value creation based on corporate value maximization objectives. Data were manually collected from the listed companies in China. It is...

Despite the acknowledged importance of capital for start-up success, gender disparities persist when trying to raise funds from external sources, including angel investors, venture capitalists, and financial institutions. Many studies have shown that gender stereotypes are harmful and prevent...

This research aims to demonstrate how the female university students' perceptions of the two main categories of financing-formal and informal-can influence their entrepreneurial intentions. Analyzing data collected through a custom-designed instrument grounded in existing literature via a...

Companies that prioritize product responsibility often develop stronger brand identities and foster greater consumer loyalty. However, these outcomes are influenced by the firm's capital structure. This study applies the trade-off theory to examine how capital structure affects product...

This paper presents new compelling evidence on the company-level ownership structure of military firms detained by asset managers. Employing a unique firm-level interlinked dataset, connecting publicly listed firms in the aerospace and defense industry, and their corresponding structure of...

Scholars have highlighted the critical role of funding targets in determining the amount of funding acquired in equity crowdfunding campaigns. However, there is little equity crowdfunding research that incorporates funding targets as a focal variable of interest. Moreover, the findings in these...