This paper uses a unique experiment conducted as part of the Investment Survey of the European Investment Bank (EIB) to … provide novel evidence on firms' preferences over loan characteristics and the relation between terms of credit and investment …

We examine firms' simultaneous choice of investment, debt financing and liquidity in a large sample of US corporates … affect the corporate decisions of unconstrained firms more strongly than those of constrained firms. Investment-cash flow … sensitivities are particularly intense for unconstrained firms with high hedging needs. Investment opportunities (as proxied by Q …

This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area … countries. Using firm-level data from 2005-2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derive … thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of managerial optimism on corporate investment regarding … often overconfident an effort is made to highlight the effect of this psychological bias on managerial investment decision … – making. Design/methodology/approach: The research methodology is based on the approach that the investment-cash flow …