Investment, Credit Rationing, and the Soft Budget Constraint: What Would a Well-Functioning Credit Market Look Like?

Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer

Microeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: IV estimates of the link between profits and investment in the Czech Republic find a complex relationship. While firms may occasionally be credit rationed or face soft budget constraints, investments generally flow to industries with the greatest profit potential or need for recapitalization

Keywords: Investment; Transition Economies; Soft budget constraint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 E2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2003-06-16
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