Investment characteristics and the form of external financing are linked. Factor analysis indicates that the principal … determinant of the financing choice is whether an investment's payoffs can be described as a hit or miss. Hit-or-miss investments … are more likely to be equity financed. Equity also becomes more common the longer the time until an investment produces …

' investment, growth and financial constraints. Combining propensity score matching with a difference-in-differences estimator, our …