We use firm-level financial data to illustrate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis under several scenarios. We estimate COVID-19 induced cumulative net revenue losses for EU companies in the range of 5.4 to 10.0% of total assets, depending on the strength of the policy support and length of the...

Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...

Here, we use a sample of firms from 30 countries during the period 1995-2013 to examine the relationship between net operating working capital (NWC) and firm value. Specifically, we show that the value of NWC varies across countries and that it depends on both investor protection and a country's...

Prior research shows that technology spillovers across firms increase innovation, productivity, and value. We study how firms finance their own growth stimulated by technology spillovers from their technological peer firms. We find that greater technology spillovers lead to higher leverage. This...

This paper identifies the aggregate financial shocks and quantifies their effects on business investment based on an estimated DSGE model with firm-level heterogeneity. On average, financial shocks contribute only 1.1% of the variation in U.S. public firms' aggregate investment. The negligible...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the factors that form the commitment Design/methodology/approach: The sampling technique used is proportionate stratified random sampling, with 100 respondents and the data collection happens in 2018. Methods of data analysis in this study uses multiple linear...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of managerial optimism on corporate investment regarding the financially constrained firms for the case of Greece. Taking as a fact that managers principally are optimistic and often overconfident an effort is made to highlight the...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the factors that form the commitment Design/methodology/approach: The sampling technique used is proportionate stratified random sampling, with 100 respondents and the data collection happens in 2018. Methods of data analysis in this study uses multiple linear...

This study was conducted to investigate the determinants of bank's stability in an emerging country. Data were collected from the commercial banks listed on Vietnam's Stock Exchanges over the years from 2010 to 2018. Further, the generalized method of moments (GMM) regression technique to...

This paper aims at identifying relevant financial factors which critically affects firm revenue growth. We specifically focus on the dynamic nature of such factors across up or down-market cycles and also for different scales and size of business. The study uses annual data of 17 accounting and...