Does it matter for domestic investment whether a country's financial system is bank based or stock-market based? This … paper posits that financial intermediation affects domestic investment notably by alleviating financing constraints …, allowing firms to increase investment in response to increased demand for output. The key result is that the structure of the …

relationship between investment activity and financial constraints is theoretically ambivalent due to simultaneity, the link … take longer to close capacity gaps. This indicates that financial constraints do indeed play a part in the investment …

financing and buyouts by private equity investors on investment of portfolio firms in the UK and France - two countries with … higher investment levels and a lower dependence on internal funds after expansion financing. Buyouts financed by venture … capital companies are neither associated with a decrease in investment spending nor with an increase in the dependence on …