On the investment sensitivity of debt under uncertainty

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2010
Volume: 106
Issue: 1
Pages: 25-27

Score contribution per author:

0.335 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We investigate the impact of debt on a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms' capital investment behavior as the underlying firm-specific and market-level uncertainty changes. Our estimates show that the influence of leverage on capital investment may be stimulating or mitigating depending on the effects of uncertainty.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:106:y:2010:i:1:p:25-27
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
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2026-01-24