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We assess the impact of credit constraints on investment, inventories and other working capital and firm growth with a …, as firms with poor investment and growth opportunities may have a higher probability of being credit constrained. We … implement several strategies to overcome this obstacle: proxies for investment opportunities, lagged regressors, random effects …
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This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831402
This paper analyses the impact that firms financial position has on investment decisions using panel data from a large … sample of non-financial corporations(around 120,000 firms) in six euro area countries(Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the … pressure appears relevant in explaining investment dynamics when it is proxied by cash flow, indebtedness and debt burden. The …
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Liquidity provision through its repo auctions has been one of the main instruments of the European Central Bank (ECB) to address the recent tensions in financial markets since summer 2007. In this paper, we analyse banks’ bidding behaviour in the ECB’s main refinancing operations (MROs)...
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Liquidity provision through its repo auctions has been one of the main instruments of the European Central Bank (ECB) to address the recent tensions in financial markets since summer 2007. In this paper, we analyse banks' bidding behaviour in the ECB's main refinancing operations (MROs) during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316378
We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standard-deviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …
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level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are … importantly, the cash flow sensitivity of investment is lower in countries with better-developed financial markets. This suggests …
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This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area … countries. Using firm-level data from 2005-2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derive … thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …
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In a stochastic frontier setting, we examine technical efficiency in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Evidence suggests that in addition to economic indicators, political and social ones play a key role in development and frontier technical efficiency profiles. The MENA have been...
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This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422081