European manufacturing industries in Germany, France, the UK and Italy are analysed. We focus on economies of scale at three …

between corporate spreads and Treasury rates provide evidence on duration and find that the endogenous model explains the …

This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …

We present a dynamic agency model of investment, borrowing and payout decisions by a mature corporation operating in … managerial rents. They under-invest and smooth payout and rents. Debt is the shock-absorber for operating income and investment …

This paper models the effect of disclosure on real investment. We show that, even if the act of disclosure is costless … cutting investment. Investment depends on asset pricing variables such as investors' liquidity shocks; disclosure depends (non … optimal to induce investment, the manager may be unable to commit to it. If hard information turns out to be good, he will …

(and trade-off between) investment and wages in Slovenian firms. We find that investment behaviour is more consistent with … display a trade-off between investment and wages, and workers share in firms’ surplus and appropriate funds that are supposed … to be used for depreciation investment. Most findings are consistent with the principal theoretical models of …

This Paper shows how microeconomic data on investment plans can be used to study the structure of risk faced by firms …. Revisions of investment plans form a martingale, and thus reveal the underlying shocks driving investment. We decompose … revisions in investment plans into micro, sector and aggregate shocks, and exploit stock market data to distinguish between …