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This paper analyses the effect of mandatory pollution abatement on U.S. corporate investment and performance and shows that environmental regulation can stimulate investment in innovation. The following set of theoretical and empirical results are presented. For financially unconstrained firms,...
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We apply the Q-Theory investment model to a panel of high-tech firms listed on the Chinese stock market during 2008 and 2011, to study the effect of financial development in reducing financing constraints of firm's R&D growth. Based on the sizable discrepancies of stock market and financial...
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, in particular, long-term debt. An active, though not necessarily large, stock market and a large banking sector are also …
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The main aims of this paper are, first, to construct a consistent comparative set of data on the sources of finance for investment over the period 1970--89 for Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and second, to challenge some conventional views of the international...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of financial system liquidity and corporate leverage on a firm …'s overinvestment. We posit that when external funds are easily available, as in expansionary monetary periods, debt loses its … traditional role as a managerial control mechanism. Instead, the supply of systemic liquidity results in corporate leverage …
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thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …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 …
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suggest that investment of high-debt firms is significantly depressed for an extended period in the aftermath of economic … crises. In the four years after a negative economic shock, the cumulative loss of capital of high-debt firms is around 15 …% higher than that of firms with lower debt burdens. The negative impact of high debt on investment is most evident for firms …
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Do changes in the marginal tax rate of corporations affect their investment? Using a unique dataset on balance sheet … and income of firms from 1956-2008 and a new measure of exogenous changes in corporations marginal tax rate, this paper … shows that the investment response of large firms to a marginal tax cut is almost twice the response of small firms …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of financial system liquidity and corporate leverage on a firm …'s overinvestment. We posit that when external funds are easily available, as in expansionary monetary periods, debt loses its … traditional role as a managerial control mechanism. Instead, the supply of systemic liquidity results in corporate leverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013327670
We show that Quantitative Easing (QE) stimulates investment via a corporate-bond lending channel. Fed's large-scale purchases of MBS and treasuries creates a vacuum of safe assets, prompting safer firms to invest by issuing relatively "safe" bonds. Using micro-data around QE, we find that QE...
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