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 …

I develop a dynamic model of investment timing in which firms must first choose when to search for external financing …. Search is costly and the arrival of investors is uncertain, leading to delay in financing and investment. Depending on … parameters, my model can predict simultaneous financing and investment or early financing prior to investment. Additionally, the …

start-up enterprises if future losses of the start-up investment are partly covered by the government. …

Unlike previous empirical work concerning investment behavior and the determinants of liquidity constraints, we use a … through 2002 we find that: (i) investment behavior is characterized by two distinct regimes; (ii) the likelihood of being … essentially stable during the whole period under consideration; (iv) ownership structure affects investment beyond its indirect …

Bertola/Caballero (1994) and Abel/Eberly (1996) extended Jorgenson's classical model of firms' optimal investment. By … introducing investment frictions, they were able to capture the role of future anticipations in investment decisions as well as … the lumpy and intermittent nature of investment dynamics. We extend Jorgenson's model to the other direction of financing …