that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on firm-level investment in South Africa. Firms' investment … reduce their investment by much more than large firms in response to increased policy uncertainty. The relationship between …

&D investment from Chinese regulations regarding technology exports revised in 2008. We document that these technology export … restrictions (TERs) decrease a firm's R&D investment. Specifically, the TERs reduce corporate R&D investment by 114 percent … investment and the number of firms' patent applications. Overall, TERs prevent firms from investing in innovation projects. Hence …

more bank loans and invest more than non-SOEs. We further find that the economic stimulus package distorts bank lending … decisions and reduces firm investment efficiency of SOEs, non-SOEs from favoured industries and regions, and non-SOEs with …, that is, the stimulus package stimulated investment by SOEs and crowded out investment by privately owned sectors …

The aim of this paper is to ascertain corporate investment reaction in bank-dependent companies in times of crisis. Our … investigation covers the differences in corporate investment reaction due to the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009 and the … corporate investment, but a statistical significance was found only for the GFC period. We also found a positive relationship …

the investment is debt-financed, the interest payment additionally reduces the corporate tax base. The research findings …In the conventional literature related to investment decisions, less attention has been paid to the length of maturiry … when investrnent is debt-financed. In such a case a firm pays the creditor not only the sum of annual interest (initial …