) was the effect driven by past investment patterns? We find that access to shareholder funding during the crisis offset the …

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 …

formulate a model of financing. New Keynesian theory emphasizes that a firm’s net worth influences investment decisions and … banks lending reaction to the net worth ratio is more elastic than investment reaction. When the steady state is the saddle …

We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm …'s marginal financing decision and its effects on corporate investment. We show that firms with more growth options, higher … investment. We test these predictions using a sample of U.S. firms and present new evidence that supports our theory …