thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …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 …

systems. Methods: National or regional databases were used to identify hospital cases with a procedure of cholecystectomy. DRG …% of cases. Six standardised case vignettes were defined, and quasi prices according to national DRG-based hospital payment …. Surgeons, hospital managers and national DRG authorities should consider how other countries’ DRG systems classify …