In this paper we attempt to investigate the importance of certain external factors on the investment decision among … Polish companies. With the use of data from the tailored made Survey on Receivables we examine factors influencing investment … finally we determine the relative influence of these factors on the actual investment reductions. The results showed that …

In this paper, we attempt to investigate the importance of certain external factors on the investment decisions made by … investment decisions of companies in Poland; (2) assess the relation between branch, company size and investment factors; (3 …) evaluate the importance of the investment factors; and (4) determine the relative influence of these factors on the company …

We study the effects of uncertainty on corporate leverage adjustments with respect to investment spikes and find that … overlevered and underlevered firms behave very differently in response to the combination of uncertainty and investment spikes …

We show that the standard analysis of vertical relationships transposes directly to investment dynamics. Thus, when a … input to serve a growing but uncertain demand, and if the supplier has market power, investment occurs too late from an … investment option, greater volatility can result in a lower value for both firms. We examine several contractual alternatives to …

We study non-contractible intangible investment in a dynamic agency model with multitasking. The manager's short …-term task determines current performance which deteriorates with investment in the firm's future profitability, his long …-term task. The optimal contract dynamically balances incentives for short- and long-term performance such that investment is …

The determinants of investment behaviour are essentially preferences, endowments, production possibilities and … generally assumed, i.e. exponential and time-consistent preferences. In this paper I develop a simple model of land investment … security on investment incentives do not hold in this more general setting. In particular, I show that an inverse relation …

Governments use tax expenditures to boost investment, innovation and employment. However, these schemes are largely …