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We examine the relationship between investment and saving for a cross section of European countries before and during … the euro crisis. Investment is positively and significantly related to saving, and this relationship is stronger during …
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This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in the euro area during the sovereign debt...
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This paper investigates the microeconomic origins of aggregate economic fluctuations inEurope. It examines the relevance of idiosyncratic shocks at the top 100 large firms (thegranular shocks) in explaining aggregate macroeconomic fluctuations. The paper alsoassesses the strength of spillovers...
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We scrutinize the impact of dividend policy on stock price volatility by considering the seminal paper of Baskin (1989). In this context, we examine the relationship between volatility and three dividend policy indicators, dividend yield, dividend payout, and stock repurchases, for 1,221 firms...
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financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …
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We study the financing policies of European public corporations prior to the euro crisis. Using data from eleven euro countries and a control group of five other European countries over 1991-2006, we show that non-financial firms from euro countries with previously weak currencies considerably...
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Private sector borrowing has been identified as a major factor behind the euro crisis. We study the contribution of non-financial public corporations to this finding. Using data from eleven euro countries and a control group of five other European countries over 1991-2006, we show that firms...
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This paper gives an account of the Swedish financial crisis covering the period 1985–2000, dealing with financial deregulation and the boom in the late 1980s, the bust and the financial crisis in the early 1990s, the recovery from the crisis and the bank resolution policy adopted during the...
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Business investment in the euro area strongly declined during the Global Financial Crisis and the Sovereign Debt Crisis … analyse the sluggish recovery in business investment in the euro area and the role of monetary policy in three steps. We … investigate the main factors that have impeded business investment since the Global Financial Crisis. We empirically analyse how …
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