Does demand and price uncertainty affect Belgian and Spanish corporate investment?

Marga Peeters

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Abstract: Several recent studies have shown that uncertainty affects investment decisions. Specifically, demand and/or price uncertainty are found to depress corporate investment in e.g. the United States. This paper investigates whether similar results hold for Belgium and Spain, countries where financial markets are less developped and many firms evidently face financial constraints. Uncertainty of demand, output prices and investment prices are measured by the standard deviation of (pre-)filtered Belgian (1984-1992) and Spanish (1983-1993) panel data, and included as explanatory variables in the investment equations derived from a neo-classical model. The results indicate that investment behaviour towards uncertainty differs significantly between low- and high-leveraged firms in both Belgium and Spain.

Keywords: corporate investment; uncertainty; neo-classical (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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