Financing Investment

We examine investment behavior when firms face costs in the access to external funds. We find that despite the existence of liquidity constraints, standard investment regressions predict that cash flow is an important determinant of investment only if one ignores q. Conversely, we also obtain signif...

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Published in:The American economic review 2001-12, Vol.91 (5), p.1263-1285
Main Author: Gomes, Joao F.
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Capital investments
Capital stock
Capital stocks
Cash flow
Corporate finance
Costs
Economic costs
Economic models
Enterprises
Finance
Financial investments
Financing methods
Fixed costs
Interest rates
Investment
Investment decisions
Investments
Liquidity
Planned investments
Regression analysis
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Studies
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subjects Capital investments
Capital stock
Capital stocks
Cash flow
Corporate finance
Costs
Economic costs
Economic models
Enterprises
Finance
Financial investments
Financing methods
Fixed costs
Interest rates
Investment
Investment decisions
Investments
Liquidity
Planned investments
Regression analysis
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Studies
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