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Corporate Balance Sheet Restructuring and Investment in the Euro Area

By Albert Jaeger

June 1, 2003

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Albert Jaeger. Corporate Balance Sheet Restructuring and Investment in the Euro Area, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

The recent boom-bust cycle in the euro area's equity valuations has left nonfinancial corporations saddled with a legacy of high debt or leverage. Models of corporate investment behavior based on imperfect capital markets predict that highly leveraged balance sheets can act as a brake on investment spending. The paper's empirical analysis suggests that leverage effects on corporate investment can be substantial and persistent, particularly if leverage exceeds threshold values.

Subject: Business enterprises, Corporate finance, Corporate investment, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Financial statements, National accounts, Public financial management (PFM), Stocks

Keywords: Balance sheet restructuring, Business cycle, Business enterprises, Corporate finance, Corporate investment, Corporate investment and financing, Cost of capital, Debt-equity mix, Equity, Equity investment, Equity valuation, Financial asset, Financial statements, Financing, Forecasting, Global, Investment, Investment boom, Investment opportunity, Investment-capital ratio, Stocks, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    24

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2003/117

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1172003

  • ISBN:

    9781451854039

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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