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 …This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area …

faced by corporates between investment and leverage. It also suggests that, should the estimated gap in net revenues … investment by 24.3 to 48.5% during the COVID-19 crisis, compared to 19% during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Using historical … materialise as the result of the crisis, the decline in corporate investment would likely be within the computed ranges. …

borders and stimulating economic growth in other regions with significant trade links with Apulia. Our results suggest that a … interventions reach their peak in the last years of ERDF programming period (2020-2022), when the absorption of investment funding …