Abstract-We construct company panel data sets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, covering the period [1978][1979][1980][1981][1982][1983][1984][1985][1986][1987][1988][1989]. These data sets are used to estimate empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played by financial factors in each country. A robust finding is that cash flow and profits terms appear to be both statistically and quantitatively more significant in the United Kingdom than in the three continental European countries. This is consistent with the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented U.K. financial system.
This paper examines the link between liquidity constraints and investment behavior for German firms of different sizes from 1970 to 1986. Results indicate that medium sized firms appear to be more liquidity constrained in their investment behavior than either the smallest or largest firms in the study, suggesting that the unique German infrastructure designed to assist the small firm has indeed succeeded in alleviating, to some degree, such liquidity constraints. Findings also support the hypothesis that the emerging competition and internationalism which characterized the German financial markets in the 1980's, have been improving access to capital for some groups of firms.
ZusammenfassungDieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Liquiditätsbeschränkungen und Investitionsverhalten deutscher Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größen im Zeitraum 1970 bis 1986. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass das Investitionsverhalten mittlerer Unternehmen stärker von der Liquiditätsseite her beschränkt ist als das der in der Untersuchung berücksichtigten kleinen und großen Unternehmen. Dies spricht dafür, dass die besondere deutsche Infrastruktur, die auf eine Unterstützung kleiner Unternehmen ausgerichtet ist, derartige Liquiditätsbeschränkungen mit Erfolg in gewissem Maße gelockert hat. Die Ergebnisse unterstützen auch die Hypothese, dass der stärkere Wettbewerb und die Internationalisierung, die die deutschen Finanzmärkte in den achtziger Jahren kennzeichneten, einigen Gruppen von Unternehmen den Zugang zu Kapital verbesserten.
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