Firm Investment and Balance-Sheet Problems in Japan /

This paper investigates whether balance-sheet conditions of firms and their main banks matter for firm investment behavior using dynamic corporate panel data in Japan for the period 1985-95. It finds that smaller non-bond issuing firms were facing liquidity constraints; these firms' balance-she...

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Autor Principal: Sekine, Toshitaka
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/111
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF