We examine the link between corporate financing and investment decisions of European firms by using a novel firm …-level survey of the European Investment Bank (EIBIS). The survey provides rich quantitative information of a wide range of … financing sources and tangible and intangible investment types for a representative sample of EU28 firms in 2016. We provide new …

Numerous research papers have used Irish-only data to test for the presence of an investment gap for small- and medium … the investment patterns of Irish SMEs in a crosscountry context and test whether an investment gap is present when … compared to other countries. We use an accelerator model of investment which links capital expenditure to firm output growth …

In this paper, we use a novel survey module to consider investment in health-related expenditures by SMEs following the … that 86 per cent of SMEs invested in health measures with a mean investment of =C15,500 and a median of =C3,500. Nearly all … investment was financed by internal funds. Health investments are uncorrelated with economic performance and financial factors …