The Influence Of Financial Constraints And Attitude Towards Risk In Corporate Investment Decisions

Ekaterina Kuzmicheva ()
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Ekaterina Kuzmicheva: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This paper presents evidence of the combined effect of financial constraints and attitudes towards risk in corporate investment. Using panel data on public companies functioning in developed countries, the author shows that demand uncertainty provokes a firm with limited resources to invest sub-optimally, compared to an unconstrained company. Also, with a given level of financial constraints, risk-taking companies tend to decrease investment to a lesser extent in comparison with risk-averse companies. To show this, an index of financial constraints has been constructed, and the optimal threshold values of the index and the risk aversion coefficient have been found.

Keywords: investment decisions; index of financial constraints; attitude towards risk, demand uncertainty. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C23 C24 D22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Financial Economics / FE, September 2014, pages - 30

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