Over the past decade, a number of researchers have extended conventional models of business fixed investment to incorporate a role for financial constraints' in determining …
JC Stein - Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2003 - Elsevier
This essay surveys the body of research that asks how the efficiency of corporate investment is influenced by problems of asymmetric information and agency. I organize the material …
Z Lu, J Wu, H Li, DK Nguyen - Emerging Markets Finance and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the impact of local banks and digital financial inclusion on Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) financing constraints. Using data from Chinese SMEs for …
We quantify the role of financial leverage behind the sluggish post-crisis investment performance of European firms. We use a cross-country firm-bank matched database to …
MR Roberts, TM Whited - Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
This chapter discusses how applied researchers in corporate finance can address endogeneity concerns. We begin by reviewing the sources of endogeneity—omitted …
G Xu, G Yano - Journal of comparative Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effect of anti-corruption on the financing of and investing in innovation by using a detailed data set of Chinese listed companies from 2009 to 2015. We …
E Casey, CM O'Toole - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2014 - Elsevier
Using euro area firm-level data since the recent financial crisis, we test whether bank lending constrained small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more likely to use or …