Cash holdings at the onset of a financial crisis are a key determinant of investment by SMEs not only during the crisis … persistent and growing investment gap. The amplification effect was present for SMEs with both volatile and stable cash holdings …

This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially …

We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …

research that uses cross-sectional differences in firm behavior to test for financing constraints on investment. This reply … of internal finance. Second, the KZ regression results (lower sensitivity of investment to cash flow for firms classified …

We provide new evidence on how monetary policy affects investment and firm finance in the United States and the United … conditioning on size, asset growth, Tobin's Q, leverage or liquidity - and drive the response of aggregate investment. Older … and financial frictions in amplifying the effects of monetary policy on investment …

1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …

This paper examines the importance of financial constraints for firm investment expenditures by looking at the … relationship between investment expenditures and proceeds from voluntary asset sales in financially healthy US manufacturing … companies. Specifically, we examine whether asset sales have a greater influence on investment expenditures for firms that are …