This paper investigates how firms manage their cash savings, financing, and investment when aggregate uncertainty is …, investment irreversibility, and time-varying risk premia. In my model, firms have a precautionary-savings motive and real options …

-equation model in which firms make interdependent decisions in financing, investment, and distribution, under the constraint that … and debt for R&D financing. R&D and physical capital investment are likely to be complementary for mature, but not for …

accelerator specification of investment demand augmented by the liquidity ratio and a firm specific user cost of capital. The … significant for young firms due mainly to the fact that young firms rely more heavily on sales to increase investment. In general … it is found that firms can reduce the sensivity of investment to their liquidity position by building lending …

Research finds that firms' investment and dividend policies are distorted by irreversibility and finance constraints … theoretical result concerns the separation of the investment and payout thresholds. The ordering of investment and distribution … the constraints drive these results. Important ramifications for empirical work on investment are discussed. …

?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … financing conditions. Financial constraints affect the distribution of investment over time in a fundamental way. Following a … on Schworm?s (1980) model of optimal investment under financial constraints, we use it to test the empirical content of …

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 …