In a model with endogenous number of innovating firms, we show that whether patent protection increases R&D investment is ambiguous, and depends on the market demand function and the cost of R&D. If the market size increases with number of firms, patent protection reduces R&D investment if the cost of R&D is sufficiently high, and higher product differentiation increases the possibility of lowe...

Investment frictions reduce, delay or protract investment expenditure that is necessary for firms to capture growth opportunities. Using an investment model with capital adjustment costs, this article estimates the gap betweenChina’s actual and frictionless aggregate output. It applies the method of simulated moments to a fully structural investment model on a panel of Chinese firms and takes i...

This paper studies the approach of accounting information quality on investment efficiency, from the context of the Chinese reality system. The empirical results confirm that the proxy for accounting information quality is negatively associated with over-investment or under-investment. Furthermore, there is a negative association between the quality of accounting information and the future inve...

We examine the effect of relationship-specific investment on the use of detailed contracts using data on transactions from a survey of Romanian firms. In those transactions, seller relationship-specific investment increases the amount of contractual detail, while buyer relationship-specific investment decreases it. We interpret these results using a hostages model applied to cash-flow and credi...

We study the effect of asset liquidity (“tangibility”) on firm policies in the presence of financing constraints. We do so in a real options framework that allows for the simultaneous determination of investment and financing. In the presence of financing imperfections, firms that operate more tangible assets have larger credit capacity. By expanding the firm’s capital base, the investment proc...

This study examines the corporate investment behavior during China’s reform era. We apply the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation to the investment Euler equation models that characterize the Chinese firms’ investment decisions. Based on the estimated structural parameters, we derive the effective discount rate (“implied” cost of capital) perceived by the firm managers to decide inve...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of financial distress on investment behavior for the years of 2011 to 2016. The statistical population of the research is Tehran Stock Exchange. According to the systematic elimination method, 104 companies have been selected as the statistical sample. In this research, financial distress is independent variable and corporate investmen...

We analyze an economy where firms undertake both innovation and adoption of technologies from the world technology frontier. The selection of high-skill managers and firms is more important for innovation than for adoption. As the economy approaches the frontier, selection becomes more important. Countries at early stages of development pursue an investment-based strategy, which relies on exist...

In this paper, we describe a framework for modeling investment in restructured electricity markets. This framework is extremely flexible, and is designed to be able to capture many of the key considerations that distinguish investment in deregulated electricity markets from both investment in regulated markets, and investment in competitive markets for other commodities. The model is composed o...