macroeconomic indicators, to provide a better understanding of corporates' investment obstacles. We investigate impediments to … corporate investment across the EU. We use a novel dataset merging firm level data from the European Investment Bank Investment … derived from aggregating qualitative answers on impediments to investment at the country level correlate relatively well with …

We examine the effect of competition laws on external financing and investment decisions around the world. Using a …, and external financing and investment. Our finding is robust to several sensitivity tests, including using alternative … measures of external financing and investment, alternative samples and a first-difference change analysis. In cross …

"We examine the effect of trust on financial investment and contracting decisions in a micro-economic environment where … among nations significantly affects investment decisions. This holds even after controlling for investor and company fixed …