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Investment Facing Credit Rationing
Author(s) -
Chatelain Jean–Bernard
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the manchester school
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9957
pISSN - 1463-6786
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9957.66.s.6
Subject(s) - credit rationing , economics , investment (military) , collateral , rationing , microeconomics , monetary economics , finance , interest rate , health care , politics , political science , law , economic growth
The explicit expression of investment facing credit rationing and convex adjustment costs is derived. Three implications follow. First, the assumption of convex adjustment costs can be substituted by credit rationing to derive an investment function. Second, it explains how credit rationing acts as a ‘financial brake’ at the bottom of a slump, when investment demand is high and collateral is low. Third, it allows the explicit Lagrange multiplier related to credit rationing to be derived and misspecification in recent empirical work to be checked.