We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … concerns about causality in several ways, including exploiting variation in laws regulating the investment behaviour of pension … like R&D, human capital, and patent protection. Our estimates imply that while private equity investment accounts for 8% of …

capital investment. We argue that this is due to the emergence of new corporate giants rather than the growth of existing ones …

that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry … rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation increase in private equity investment explains as much as 5.5% of the …

funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then … pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program resulted in a 0.3 standard deviation increase in the investment … readiness score. Two years later, the average impacts on firm investment outcomes are positive, but small in magnitude, and not …

This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area … countries. Using firm-level data from 2005-2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derive … thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …

We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standarddeviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …

firm level investment and high-frequency identified monetary policy shocks. We show that the reaction of firms' investment …

We assess the impact of credit constraints on investment, inventories and other working capital and firm growth with a …, as firms with poor investment and growth opportunities may have a higher probability of being credit constrained. We … implement several strategies to overcome this obstacle: proxies for investment opportunities, lagged regressors, random effects …