Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197928 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper No. 2019-14
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
This paper develops and estimates a model of firm-level fixed capital investment when firms face borrowing constraints. Dynamically optimal investment functions are derived for the firms with and without financial constraints. These policy functions are then used to construct the likelihood of observing each of the investment regimes in the data. Structural parameters are estimated using data from the Ukrainian manufacturing sector in 1993-1998. I provide empirical evidence of the role of market and ownership structure for firm-level investment behavior. I also discuss the effects of international trade exposure and involvement in non-monetary transactions on the probability of facing financial constraints and the resulting fixed capital accumulation path. Estimation results are used to illustrate the welfare implications of financial constraints in the Ukrainian manufacturing sector.
Subjects: 
Econometric and statistical methods
Economic models
Firm dynamics
JEL: 
C61
C63
D24
G31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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