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The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to over-invest in their companies. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed at explaining this stylized fact, most of them focusing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows...
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Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …
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We analyze the impact of subsidies on R&D expenditures in the financial crisis and beyond. The financial crisis has led to considerable turmoil in financing and, as a result, to restrictions of firms' access to external financing. Utilizing this fact, we identify and analyze financing...
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This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...
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Existing theories of a firm's optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...
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properties of the equilibrium investment behavior. The bilateral external benefits induce an investment multiplier effect. This … how it interacts with other important factors such as the costs of investment and the signaling incentives induced by …
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