. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs … terms reflecting both idiosyncratic and systematic risk, and weaker investor protection increases the weight on … idiosyncratic risk. Using firm-level data from 38 countries, we estimate the predicted relationships among investor protection …

corresponding rate with the investments. For this reason, the investment rate of companies is currently almost at the same level as … in the years 2000–2008. However, after the financial crisis the development of investment volume has been weaker in … capital in clearly better in Finland than in most other European countries. The investment rate in Finland is reduced …

, consumption and investment after two years around 0.5%, 0.3% and 1.5% respectively. Uncertainty on the other economic policies has …

We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest … channel. For each of those countries, we estimate neoclassical investment relationships, explaining investment by its user … cost, sales and cash flow. We find investment to be sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. This …

In this paper we investigate corporate investment behavior using a large panel of Hungarian firms between 1993 and 2002 …, the effect of user cost changes on investment is significant and robust across several specifications providing strong … evidence against simple sales-accelerator models of investment. Firms' cash-flow proved to be a significant determinant of …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs … if they invest, then their average investment rate is lower. These differences cannot entirely be explained by firm or … owner characteristics. Furthermore, women’s investment is less sensitive to cash flow, which indicates that it is unlikely …

This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment behaviour using firm-level data for a sample of … invested. Furthermore, the difference between reversible and irreversible investment is crucial. The impact of volatility on … irreversible investment is far more larger than on reversible investment. In some cases, the amount of reversible investment will …

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms' investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing … investment, while price uncertainty is insignificant. This is consistent with the behavior of monopolistic firms with … irreversible capital (Caballero, 1991). Further, firms revise their investment plans very little. They may do so in response to new …