IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …

We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm …'s marginal financing decision and its effects on corporate investment. We show that firms with more growth options, higher … investment. We test these predictions using a sample of U.S. firms and present new evidence that supports our theory …

productivity gains to investment and an incentive plan, we are left with a large unexplained component. Learning by experimentation …

In this paper we use balance-sheet data and information on bankruptcy to study the relationship between investment …-2011, which also allows us to study the impact of the 2008 crisis on Czech companies. Using investment-cash flow sensitivity to … significant impact on the investment rate. By taking a closer look at individual subsamples we reveal that the existence of …

In this paper, we investigate the damage to real-sector investment spending and corporate financing activities … triggered by the failure of three major investment banks during the 2007-09 financial crisis. We find that firms characterized … by pre-crisis corporate investment banking relationships with troubled investment banks exhibit significantly lower post …

capital. The marginal product of capital is measured as the ratio of the long-run growth of GDP to a country's investment … most important variables. The data also suggest constant returns to capital, so investment matters for long-run growth. …

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 …