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financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …
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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. …
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investment - results that are consistent with the model's predictions. …
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We investigate the cost of capital in a model with an agency conflict between inside managers and outside shareholders. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs depends on a parameter representing investor...
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investment or disinvestment and/or mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We show theoretically how the choice of adjustment strategy …
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This paper investigates the relationship between a firm's investment decision and its financial situation. We present a … model of investment, where the cost of external finance is increasing in the debt ratio. The model is estimated using a …
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Empirical evidence suggests that capital structure varies across firms facing different levels of information asymmetry, however, this evidence contradict the prediction of pecking order hypothesis. Although debt capacity constraints offer some explanation for this discrepancy, it fails to...
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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 …
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their investment decisions. Moreover, financial con-straints become more severe in times of restrictive monetary policy. …
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In 1867, the "Compromise" between Austria and Hungary laid the foundation of a single currency system with a common central bank. As in today's euroland, each part of the monarchy remained sovereign in fiscal matters. Moreover, the borrowing needs of both parts of the monarchy were quite large,...
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