We quantify the role of financial leverage behind the sluggish post-crisis investment performance of European firms. We … investment more after the crisis. This negative effect is stronger for firms holding short-term debt in countries with sovereign … stress, consistent with rollover risk being an important channel influencing investment. The negative effect of firm leverage …

-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … investment incentives and transfer pricing induces inefficiently low taxes …

investment and firm performance. We find that firm size and moderate competition is associated with higher intangible investment …, while firm age is associated with lower intangible investment. Examining firm performance, we find that higher investment is … not with higher productivity or profitability. The evidence suggests that intangible investment is associated with growth …

The investment theory, in which the expected return varies cross-sectionally with investment, expected profitability …

-preserving investment …

further unpack the frictions to online investment, and show that social networks constitute a key barrier to additional …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …