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Recent literature has shown that corporate indebtedness affects firm-level investment behavior but not necessarily … substitute depressed investment by their financially constrained competitors. The increase in investment, primarily driven by … equilibrium effects are unambiguously countercyclical because the increase in investment by unconstrained firms does not crowd out …
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-pronged approach to investigate the relationship between corporate leverage and fixed investment spending. The empirical analysis …
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This paper examines the impact of financial liberalization on fixed investment in Mexico, using establishment …
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This paper examines the intertemporal effect of corporate income taxation on the investment behavior of a firm that … the corporate profit tax rate initially reduces investment, but the effect is reversed over time as the firm adjusts its …
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We examine how firm and country heterogeneity shape the response of corporate investment in emerging markets to changes … the costs of external borrowing and (ii) a real options channel-reflecting firms' option values to delay investment. We … find evidence of the coexistence of both channels. Financially weaker firms reduce investment by more in response to higher …
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This paper studies the relation between firms' access to finance, labor productivity and investment using Lithuanian … characteristics, removing these constraints can improve average productivity and investment of firms in Lithuania by 0.51 percent and …
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Fixed investment was the most important contributing factor to the boom-bust cycle in Cyprus over the last decade …. Investment boomed during a credit boom in mid-2000s, during which the corporate sector borrowed heavily. Investment collapsed … after 2008 when the credit boom ended. Investment and corporate balance sheets further deteriorated during the Cypriot …
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The global economy is in the midst of an unprecedented slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To assess the likely evolution of nonfinancial corporate performance going forward, this paper investigates empirically the impact of past pandemics using firm-level data on more than 537,000 companies...
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This paper studies the evolution of non-financial corporate debt among publicly listed companies in major advanced economies between 2010 and 2017. Since 2010, firms have started to rely more on corporate bond markets and have used part of their debt to increase their holdings of cash. In our...
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in investment after the Global Financial Crisis. Investment efficiency has fallen and the financial performance of …
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