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Business Optimism for Small, Medium and Large Firms: Does It Explain Investment?

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We use UK survey data on variation in business optimism by manufacturing size group to estimate the determinants of optimism using OLS and SURE. There are similarities across the size groups but also some differences: the medium-size group seems to have been unusually affected by real interest rates in recent years. We also model investment authorisations, conditional on business optimism. Again, there are similarities across the size groups. However, the largest-size group, and possibly also the medium-size group, seem to be investing less in recent years in relation to reported optimism. By contrast, capital investment by smaller-sized firms has been stable in relation to business optimism. Some tentative explanations for these findings are explored. Copyright 2007 Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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  • Ciaran Driver, 2007. "Business Optimism for Small, Medium and Large Firms: Does It Explain Investment?," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 28(2), pages 205-225, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ifs:fistud:v:28:y:2007:i:2:p:205-225
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    1. Fatih Ozatay, 2008. "Expansionary Fiscal Consolidations: New Evidence from Turkey," Working Papers 0805, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Department of Economics.
    2. Driver, Ciaran & Muñoz-Bugarin, Jair, 2019. "Financial constraints on investment: Effects of firm size and the financial crisis," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 441-457.

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