The aim of this paper is to investigate the issue of R&D investment and the market value of the firm. This idea dating … R&D investment). In the theoretical section of this paper we are describing Tobin's original model, and Abel's (1984 …-section time series model (Feasible Generalized Least Squares Model), for a panel of countries in Europe including UK and Turkey …

Firms reduce investment when facing downward wage rigidity (DWR), the inability or unwillingness to adjust wages … DWR to document this fact. Following a one standard deviation increase in the minimum wage, firms reduce their investment … investment cut is larger than the benefit of the wage increase. This investment cut cannot be fully explained by labor adjustment …

In this paper we describe a theoretical model of optimal investment of various types of financially constrained firms …. We show that the resulting relationship between internal funds and investment is non-monotonic. In particular, the … magnitude of the cash flow sensitivity of the investment is lower for firms with credit rationing compared to firms that are …