This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of …

This paper attempts to test whether financial supply-side shifts explain the low-investment climate of private firms in …

This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …

organisation capital primarily by monetary investment but rather through establishing new organisational routines and building up … tangible assets, investment in all measurable intangible assets (technological and non-technological knowledge, software and …

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 …

The paper explores the investment behaviour of German firms in the context of the Q-approach, which plays a dominant … role in empirical investment research. The analysis is based on the Deutsche Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet … by Gilchrist and Himmelberg. We compare the results from two different estimation techniques for dynamic investment …