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We examine the link between corporate financing and investment decisions of European firms by using a novel firm-level survey of the European Investment Bank (EIBIS). The survey provides rich quantitative information of a wide range of financing sources and tangible and intangible investment...
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and aggregate demand conditions. We find that firms with higher debt levels and a higher share of short-term debt reduce …
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major transitions during the past few years: Private Equity; Private Debt; and Collective Investment Vehicles. …
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on financially constrained firms; (ii) ACE and cashflow tax systems, which are investment neutral in the neoclassical … banks, investment is subject to double moral hazard and the timing of tax payments becomes important. The ACE system gives … tax relief at the return stage and provides better incentives than a cash-flow tax which gives tax relief upfront …
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This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...
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according to the hierarchical status of the respective market participant, and can therefore endanger sovereign debt …
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We study a model where some investors ("hedgers") are bad at information processing, while others ("speculators") have superior information-processing ability and trade purely to exploit it. The disclosure of financial information induces a trade externality: if speculators refrain from trading,...
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introduction of the so-called ACE corporate tax reform in Belgium that came into effect in January 2006 to evaluate this …
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In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms' innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation, particularly...
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