emerging markets. The paper measures the risk of short-term exposure by estimating, at the firm level, the effect on investment … not find that this reduction in net worth translates into a drop in investment. -- maturity mismatch ; investment …

. We measure the risk of maturity mismatch by estimating, at the firm level, the effect on investment of the interaction of … a drop in investment or sales …

explore corporate data to investigate how economic uncertainty affected investment, dividend payouts and cash holdings, based … of England. These data demonstrate that heightened economic uncertainty lowered investment even after controlling for … investment opportunities, sales growth, and the firm's own stock volatility. Economic uncertainty also explains the rise in cash …

Using Swedish bank lending data, investment data and accounting data, I examine how the financial crisis affected … corporate investment through its effect on credit availability. Sensitivity to a credit supply shock is measured as credit … reserves, defined as unused credit on lines of credit. I find that firms with low credit reserves reduced investment …

This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment … investment-cash flow sensitivity, which decreased substantially after the crisis when banks changed their expectations about the … value of assets on firms' balance sheets. This paper deepens our understanding of firms' investment behavior …

lender distress affected firm-level investment outcomes after the crisis. In specifications that compare firms in the same …

The empirical performance of the Q theory of investment can be significantly improved by simultaneously considering the … time- and the frequency-varying features of the investment-Q relationship. Using continuous wavelet tools, I assess the … investment-Q sensitivity at different frequencies and its evolution over time, as well as the interaction of the financial cycle …

We study the drivers of investment in Italy during the global financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis. We focus … investment rate of 1.9 and 1.4 percentage points (36 and 41 per cent of its mean) during each crisis. We also find that expected …. Overall, ex-ante high firm indebtedness has been an important driver of the lower investment rate over the last decade …

outside the U.S. due to a greater decline of intangible investment and a much slower recovery. Tangible capital can be … investment relies on firms’ liquidity holdings that were drawn down in the crisis and can only be rebuilt gradually through … retained profits. We provide a unified account of the findings through a dynamic model of corporate investment and liquidity …

on nominal wage rigidities at the firm level. I trace out the long-run investment and growth trajectories of firms which … investment gap for two years following the shock, resulting in a persistent accumulated growth gap. I show that affected firms … with a higher degree of wage rigidity exhibit a steeper drop in investment and grow more slowly than affected firms with …