This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment behaviour using firm-level data for a sample of Belgian manufacturing firms. In general, the results confirm former analysis at the aggregate level, stating that uncertainty does matter but that the sign of the effect and its...

In this paper we investigate how demand and output price uncertainty affect investment plans of Belgian manufacturing firms. We obtain time-varying uncertainty measures at the firm and industry level from the Belgian monthly business cycle survey and investment plans from the half-yearly...

Im Januar 2014 haben die Autoren untersucht, ob Investitionen in Offshore-Windanlagen unter den damaligen Rahmenbedingungen rentabel waren und welche Risiken als besonders relevant für die Umsetzung von Projekten erachtet werden müssen. Im April 2014 wurde der Gesetzentwurf zum novellierten...

We quantify the role of financial factors behind the sluggish post-crisis performance of European firms. We use a firm-bank-sovereign matched database to identify separate roles for firm and bank balance sheet weaknesses arising from changes in sovereign risk and aggregate demand conditions. We...