In this paper we investigate to what extent firm investment in transition countries is sensitive to internal finance …

simultaneously TFP, Total Factor Productivity, identified as efficiency, and the parameters of a model where investment depends upon … internal funds, wages, and sales, as in Prasnikar J. and Svejnar J. (2000). It shows that while real investment is higher in … foreign firms, the improvement in efficiency due to investment is significantly higher in Hungarian domestic firms. We test …

Strategic restructuring of firms through investment is key to a transition from plan to market. Using data on … rationed. Given the large volume of non-performing bank loans to firms and the high rate of investment of large state owned and …

In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using micro data on the population of … models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across categories of ownership and with the legal status of firms …. Our analysis of depreciation leads us to the conclusion that replacement investment displays a similar pattern in many …

In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using micro data on the population of … models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across categories of ownership and with the legal status of firms …. Our analysis of depreciation leads us to the conclusion that replacement investment displays a similar pattern in many …

In this paper we use balance-sheet data and information on bankruptcy to study the relationship between investment …-2011, which also allows us to study the impact of the 2008 crisis on Czech companies. Using investment-cash flow sensitivity to … significant impact on the investment rate. By taking a closer look at individual subsamples we reveal that the existence of …

The paper analyzes investment behavior of industrial enterprises in the period immediately following price and foreign … microeconomic decisions. A dynamic investment function with symmetric adjustment cost function based on the Euler equation has been … estimated. The derived and estimated investment function accounts for export sales in order to determine whether firms evaluate …

A detailed treatment of aggregation and capital heterogeneity substantially improves the performance of the investment … capital. The model fits well the value, momentum, investment, and profitability premiums simultaneously and partially explains … profitability premiums, as well as the countercyclical and long-term dynamics of the value and investment premiums. However, the …

investor “rationality,” the relation must be “explained” by a risk (factor) model. The investment approach questions the … approximations of firm-level investment returns. The evidence that characteristics dominate covariances in horse races does not …” expected returns; the investment approach is no more and no less “causal” than the consumption approach in “explaining …

investor “rationality,” the relation must be “explained” by a risk (factor) model. The investment approach questions the … approximations of firm-level investment returns. The evidence that characteristics dominate covariances in horse races does not …” expected returns; the investment approach is no more and no less “causal” than the consumption approach in “explaining …