The paper explores the investment behaviour of German firms in the context of the Qapproach, which plays a dominant role in empirical investment research. The analysis is based on the Deutsche Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet statistics. The panel data set contains some 2,300 German firms'...

During the last decade, exploring the link between financial factors and investment has become a major field of theoretical and empirical publications. Some empirical findings indicate that young, fast growing, low dividend paying firms are faced with more liquidity constraints than other firms...