We investigate how idiosyncratic lender shocks impact corporate investment. Lenders with recent default experience … write stricter loan contracts, leading to a reduction in real investment for borrowing firms. The decline in investment is … evidence suggests that defaults inform lenders about investment opportunities and their screening ability, and adjustments to …

How do firms finance their investment? To what extent does the financing mix depends on the nature or the size of … investment? To what extent does the funding mix of investment vary along firm size? Relying on a unique database of firms … picture of the financial resources used by firms to finance their investment.We uncover significant cross …

explore corporate data to investigate how economic uncertainty affected investment, dividend payouts and cash holdings, based … of England. These data demonstrate that heightened economic uncertainty lowered investment even after controlling for … investment opportunities, sales growth, and the firm's own stock volatility. Economic uncertainty also explains the rise in cash …

This paper provides a structural approach to test investment equations based on the log-likelihood function of a non …-linear investment rule. The analysis integrates the predictions of the q-theory for the commonly studied active region of investment … findings are consistent with the macro-finance literature suggesting that q-theory models with non-convex investment frictions …

We analyse the developments of investment and investment financing in Italy since 1995, based on data from national … accounts and the flow of funds. The exceptional fall in investment after the global financial crisis in 2007 concerned all … intangible investment instead weathered the double recession better. Focusing on investment financing, the eruption of the crisis …

This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area … countries. Using firm-level data from 2005-2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derive … thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …

outside the U.S. due to a greater decline of intangible investment and a much slower recovery. Tangible capital can be … investment relies on firms’ liquidity holdings that were drawn down in the crisis and can only be rebuilt gradually through … retained profits. We provide a unified account of the findings through a dynamic model of corporate investment and liquidity …

We document that intangible investment responds less to monetary policy compared to tangible investment. Likewise …, monetary policy has a smaller effect on the total investment and stock prices of firms with more intangible assets. This novel …

investment by 24.3 to 48.5% during the COVID-19 crisis, compared to 19% during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Using historical … faced by corporates between investment and leverage. It also suggests that, should the estimated gap in net revenues … materialise as the result of the crisis, the decline in corporate investment would likely be within the computed ranges. …

This paper identifies the aggregate financial shocks and quantifies their effects on business investment based on an ….S. public firms' aggregate investment. The negligible aggregate relevance of financial shocks mainly results from the …, financially constrained firms are directly forced to cut investment, which dampens the aggregate investment demand and lowers the …