impact of financing constraints on corporate investment? The short answer is no. The common practice of using pre … from previous studies the sensitivity of investment to cash flow is inverse basin-shaped. We provide an understanding of … this shape by studying investment and financial policies jointly, under different regimes of financing constraints. …

This paper studies whether the monotonicity condition of the investment-cash flow sensitivity is satisfied empirically … investment-cash flow sensitivity, rejects the monotonicity condition for any common metric of financing constraints we use. The … testing procedure we propose reconciles the conflicting findings of the literature about the shape of the investment-cash flow …

This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into … independence matters for both investment and financial decisions. Investment increases under an Independent Regulatory Agency (IRA … privately controlled. Finally political orientation does matter, as firm investment increases under more conservative (pro …