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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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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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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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world with only a monetary policy and a productivity shock, the full model matches the relative volatility of the external …, the model reproduces a substantial share of the contraction (increase) of investment (the external finance premium …
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Using a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) identified with a mix of sign and zero restrictions, we show that a restrictive bank loan supply shock has a strong and persistent negative impact on real GDP and the GDP deflator. This result comes about even though flows of other sources of...
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suggests that there is room for creditors to fulfill their role in corporate governance. On the other hand, investment is …
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