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Previous studies argued that low investment-cash flow sensitivities of German firms may be caused by dominance of … panel data approach show that the dependence of investment spending on internal funds does not significantly differ between …
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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. …
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We study a simple neoclassical model of investment in a developing country, modified to allow for long-term projects … and short-term debt. Early signals indicating low productivity of investment may lead creditors to call loans in early. In …, and thus no need to liquidate capital, investment, the capital-labor ratio, wages and ex post worker utility are all …
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Probleme der Finanzierung sind für die Marktdiffusion innovativer Energietechnologien ebenso wichtig wie ihre technischen Eigenschaften oder der erwartete Nutzen aus der Technologieanwendung. Welche Rolle spielt dabei die Eigentümerstruktur des Innovators? Welchen Einfluss hat die...
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result is established in a model with tax advantage to debt and expectations about a forthcoming tax reform. Investment spurt … leaves the long-run investment incentives of an all-equity firm unaffected is shown to cause a substantial short run … investment hike. The findings are illustrated by numerical simulations indicating the magnitudes of the spurt effects. …
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Strategic investors, such as corporate venture capitalists, engage in the financing of start-up firms to complement their core businesses and to facilitate the internalization of externalities. We argue that while strategic objectives make it more worthwhile for an investor to elicit high...
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Has financial liberalization improved the efficiency with which investment funds are allocated to competing uses? In … of the efficiency of investment allocation that measures whether, and to what extent, investment funds are going to firms … efficiency with which investment funds are allocated. …
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institutional investment pools, public finance should aim to promote investment opportunities that can attract funding from these …
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Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...
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This study explores individual and country-level environmental drivers of informal "seed" investment. We examine four …,960 informal investors, we report drivers for the four types of seed investment. Descriptive statistics are consistent with prior …
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