We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period … 1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …

We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period … 1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …

(France, Germany, Italy and Spain) despite the common regulatory framework, and also to study the causes that explain this …

-technology firms located in the UK, France, Italy and Spain, 108 of which underwent a buyout between 1997 and 2004. The control sample … financing in buyout transactions, their investment rates are both lower and more sensitive to cash flows. In addition, I analyze … obtain equity financing from PE investors, while investment levels do not seem to be affected after a buyout However …