Israel : Selected Issues.

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the empirical relationship between corporate leverage-and other indicators of financial health-and investment in Israel, using dynamic panel data techniques. The results suggest that weak balance sheets may well have contributed to the investment decline of recent...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Colecção:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2006/121
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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