for domestic and international investment, and whether changes in the international economy have helped shape these …

We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest … euro-area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain). With particularly rich micro datasets for each country containing … credit channel. For each of those countries, we estimate neo-classical investment relationships, explaining investment by its …

factor, and external investment adjustment costs. First-order conditions of the model are estimated by the generalized method …

-technology firms located in the UK, France, Italy and Spain, 108 of which underwent a buyout between 1997 and 2004. The control sample … financing in buyout transactions, their investment rates are both lower and more sensitive to cash flows. In addition, I analyze … obtain equity financing from PE investors, while investment levels do not seem to be affected after a buyout However …