This paper uses a panel of UK manufacturing firms to examine whether the effect of cash flow on inventory investment … effect of cash flow on inventory investment is concentrated among firms identified as financially constrained using either … on the inventory investment of unconstrained firms. This raises doubts about whether these are accurate indicators of …

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in … investment or R&D. In identical pecifications for British firms, cash flow is informative about investment, although not about … the level of R&D spending conditional on the R&D participation decision. In the UK, we also find that investment is less …