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 …

We study the relationship between net trade credit and firms' investment levels, focusing on financially distressed …

In this paper, we use firm-level survey data to explore the determinants of SME investment activity and the extent to … which observed investment is in line with that suggested by economic fundamentals. In contrast to previous literature which … has focused on whether investment gaps exist at a more aggregate level, we find evidence that for SMEs actual investment …