Israel: Selected Issues

March 23, 2006

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Israel: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 12, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the empirical relationship between corporate leverage—and other indicators of financial health—and investment in Israel, using dynamic panel data techniques. The results suggest that weak balance sheets may well have contributed to the investment decline of recent years. The impact of financial variables on investment is more pronounced for firms under financial pressure. However, there is little evidence that weak balance sheets’ impact on corporate investment increases during real downturns or following an equity market bust.

Subject: Banking, Financial institutions, Financial statements, Fiscal consolidation, Inflation, Insurance companies, Mutual funds, Prices, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Bank, Bank management, Bank policy, Bank-customer relations area, CR, Deficit target, Europe, Financial statements, GDP, Global, Inflation, Insurance companies, ISCR, Mutual funds, Provident fund

Publication Details

Pages:

113
Volume:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2006/121
Stock No:

1ISREA2006002
ISBN:

9781451819601
ISSN:

1934-7685

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