This paper finds that, concurrent with the rapid growing index investment in commodities markets since early 2000s …

We use the World Bank decomposition of aggregate investment shares into their private and public components to test for … the correlation between volatility and investment in a set of developing countries. We uncover a statistically significant … negative correlation between various volatility measures and private investment, even when adding the standard control …

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 …

has significant effects on the cost of capital, investment, and economic growth …

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 …