Us external adjustment: progress, prognosis, and interpretation / William R. Cline -- A sectoral assessment of the US current account deficit: performance and prospects / Allen J. Lenz -- Comments / Peter Hooper, Robert Z. Lawrence -- Reply / Cline -- Surprises and lessons from Japanese external...

This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which...