We study the time-varying effects of Tobin's q and cash flow on investment dynamics in the USA using a vector … variation over time of the response of investment to shocks in both variables. The time-varying sensitivity of investment to a … show that, although Tobin's q and cash flow are complementary sources of information for investment decisions, their …

towards banks contracts the amount and maturity of corporate debt and leads firms to slow investment and forego growth …

more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …

We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …

guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle …

emerging markets. The paper measures the risk of short-term exposure by estimating, at the firm level, the effect on investment … not find that this reduction in net worth translates into a drop in investment. …

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U … show that, except for firms that are much less efficient than the competitor, investment in the subgame-perfect equilibrium …

or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses … on investment more likely. Extending the basic framework, the paper shows that separation of ownership and control …, endogenous entry and cumulative investments make positive effects of competition on investment more likely. Imperfect upstream …