Over the past decade, a number of researchers have extended conventional models of business
fixed investment to incorporate a role for financial constraints' in determining investment…

… excluded from the refinement and the calculation of R, in some (thermolysin, lysozyme,
actinidin and ribonuclease) all data are included and the R values are higher than they would be …

Background As the population ages, increasing numbers of older adults are undergoing
surgery. Frailty is prevalent in older adults and may be a better predictor of post-operative …

Most empirical models of investment rely on the assumption that firms are able to respond to
prices set in centralized securities markets (through the "cost of capital" or "q"). An …

Both managerial ownership and performance are endogenously determined by exogenous (and
only partly observed) changes in the firm's contracting environment. We extend the …

Oestrogens are involved in the growth, development and homeostasis of a number of tissues
1 . The physiological effects of these steroids are mediated by a ligand-inducible nuclear …

Micro data studies of household saving often find a significant group in the population with
virtually no wealth, raising concerns about heterogeneity in motives for saving. In particular, …

THE ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of transport systems now includes over thirty
proteins that share extensive sequence similarity and domain organization (reviewed in refs 1…

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A recent paper in this Journal by Kaplan and Zingales reexamines a subset of firms from
work of Fazzari, Hubbard, and Petersen and criticizes the usefulness of investment-cash flow …