financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …

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 … thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …

This paper analyses the implications of corporate indebtedness for investment following large economic shocks. The … suggest that investment of high-debt firms is significantly depressed for an extended period in the aftermath of economic …% higher than that of firms with lower debt burdens. The negative impact of high debt on investment is most evident for firms …

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 …

towards banks contracts the amount and maturity of corporate debt and leads firms to slow investment and forego growth …

This paper attempts to test whether financial supply-side shifts explain the low-investment climate of private firms in …

This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of …

In this paper, we analyze the effect of financial uncertainty on corporate investment using firm-level panel data from … the Republic of Korea. We find that financial uncertainty has a significant negative effect on corporate investment, and … investment irreversibility amplify the negative effect of uncertainty. The inverted U-shaped curve of the uncertainty effect …