In this paper we use balance-sheet data and information on bankruptcy to study the relationship between investment …-2011, which also allows us to study the impact of the 2008 crisis on Czech companies. Using investment-cash flow sensitivity to … significant impact on the investment rate. By taking a closer look at individual subsamples we reveal that the existence of …

In China, between 2006 and 2013, local public debt crowded out the investment of private firms by tightening their … funding constraints, while leaving state-owned firms' investment unaffected. We establish this result using a purpose …-built dataset for Chinese local public debt. Private firms invest less in cities with more public debt, the reduction in investment …

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

We assess the impact of credit constraints on investment, inventories and other working capital and firm growth with a …, as firms with poor investment and growth opportunities may have a higher probability of being credit constrained. We … implement several strategies to overcome this obstacle: proxies for investment opportunities, lagged regressors, random effects …