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 …

consumption, portfolio allocation, financing, investment, and business exit decisions. The optimal capital structure is determined …

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 …

This paper examines the extent to which investment financing and market-timing explanations motivate public equity … one motive for the equity offer being to raise capital for investment. However, firms also hold onto much of the cash they …. These results suggest that market timing as well as investment financing is a motivation for equity offers …

This paper examines the importance of financial constraints for firm investment expenditures by looking at the … relationship between investment expenditures and proceeds from voluntary asset sales in financially healthy US manufacturing … companies. Specifically, we examine whether asset sales have a greater influence on investment expenditures for firms that are …

survival, and risk management. Fourth, I discuss implications of this research program for analysis of effects of investment on …Over the past decade, a number of researchers have extended conventional models of business fixed investment to … incorporate a role for financial constraints' in determining investment. This paper reviews developments and challenges in this …

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 …