Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144246 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 32
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
This paper aims at assessing the relationship between the possible existence of financial constraints and the decisions of Belgian private firms as regards their investments in both capital and R&D investments over the last decade. The main system GMM estimates from the error-correction equations indicate that the sensitivity of both types of investments to cash flow variations are rather differentiated. On the whole, these effects are more important for investments in ordinary assets, young small-scale firms located in the Walloon region that are not part of a multinational. Firms that perform R&D on a permanent basis and that receive public funds to support these activities appear to be less cash constraints.
Subjects: 
financial constraints
investments in capital and R&D
Belgian private companies
error-correction investment equations
system GMM panel data econometric models
JEL: 
C23
E22
O31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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