Rationale: In recent years the Spanish business sector has experienced unprecedented shocks: the onset of the pandemic, supply chain bottlenecks and escalating commodity prices. In this setting, it is important to assess the sector’s economic and financial situation. Takeaways •Between April...

Rationale. This article summarises the main results of the Bank Lending Survey for 2022 Q4 and the expectations for 2023 Q1. It also analyses matters related to funding market access and the impact of other factors on responding banks’ lending policy.Takeaways. •According to the Bank Lending...

Artículo de revista ; According to the Bank Lending Survey, during 2022 Q1 credit standards in business lending tightened both in Spain and in the euro area as a whole, against a backdrop of greater concern for the risks associated with the impact of the energy crisis and, more recently, the...

Motivación El fuerte incremento del precio de la energía y de otras materias primas en la segunda mitad de 2021 y buena parte de 2022 ha supuesto un aumento notable de los costes de producción de las empresas. El presente artículo analiza cómo se ha trasladado este incremento de los costes...

Rationale The surge in energy and other commodity prices in 2021 H2 and a significant part of 2022 has led to firms’ costs increasing considerably. This article analyses how this rise in costs has been passed through to selling prices and what impact it has had on firms’ output, wages,...

Este trabajo analiza el impacto que la incertidumbre acerca de las políticas económicas tiene sobre las decisiones de inversión de las empresas. Para ello se hace uso de una muestra de gran tamaño de empresas no financieras españolas, para el período 1998-2014. La incertidumbre se mide...

Las decisiones de inversión son generalmente irreversibles y podrían verse afectadas por problemas de cautividad y oportunismo. Un marco de inversión estable necesita, por tanto, de instituciones de ejecución sólidas. Este documento analiza datos a nivel de empresa para estudiar el impacto...

We investigate which firm characteristics are associated with investment in tangible and intangible fixed assets, paying special attention to the case of R&D, and which funding sources are used for each type of investment. Regarding firm characteristics, we find that younger and more profitable...